George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Country Quotes, Mean Quotes

An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.

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The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large, but mostly one who, through ignorance or stupidity [or racism or poverty! - Draffan] steals in a way that is not customary. He snatches a loaf from the baker's counter and is promptly run into gaol. Another man snatches bread from the table of hundreds of widows and orphans and similar credulous souls who do not know the ways of company promoters; and, as likely as not, he is run into Parliament.

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I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum

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The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.

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In the right key one can say anything. In the wrong key, nothing: the only delicate part is the establishment of the key.

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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

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Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee.

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Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence.

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Communism, being the lay form of Catholicism, and indeed meaning the same thing, has never had any lack of chaplains.

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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

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All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.

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I never expect a soldier to think.

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Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.

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You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my transfiguration and purification. You are my rapscallionly fellow vagabond, my tempter and star. I want you.

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Get married, but never to a man who is home all day.

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The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.

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We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time; or we shall stick in the mud.

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Even a vortex is a vortex in something. You can't have a whirlpool without water; and you can't have a vortex without gas, or molecules or atoms or ions or electrons or something, not nothing.

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Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.

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Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

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