George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Writing Quotes, Brass Bands Quotes

They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.

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Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.

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If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

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Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?

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In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as 1 percent of us could give physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific.

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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

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Principles without programs are platitudes.

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The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.

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There is a disease to which plays as well as men become liable with advancing years. In men it is called doting, in plays dating.The more topical the play the more it dates.

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In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god : everybody worships him and nobody does his will.

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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

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Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.

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A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.

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Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

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Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.

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My reputation grows with every failure.

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Nobody supposes that doctors are less virtuous than judges; but a judge whose salary and reputation depended on whether the verdict was for plaintiff or defendant, prosecutor or prisoner, would be as little trusted as a general in the pay of the enemy.

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The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

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For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a standard scientific treatise, and that the only additions to it were Galileo'a demonstration of Leonardo da Vinci's simple remark that the earth is a moon of the sun, Sir Humphrey Davy's invention of the safety lamp, the discovery of electricity, the application of steam to industrial purposes, and the penny post.

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Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.

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