George Bernard Shaw Quotes, World Quotes

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.

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Golf is typical capitalist luncay.

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If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.

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Everyone can see that the people who hunt are the right people and the people who don't are the wrong ones.

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The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack.

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Ye poor posterity, think not that ye are the first. Other fools before ye have seen the sun rise and set, and the moon change her shape and her hour. As they were so ye are; and yet not so great; for the pyramids my people built stand to this day; whilst the dustheaps on which ye slave, and which ye call empires, scatter in the wind even as ye pile your dead sons' bodies on them to make yet more dust.

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Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?

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Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.

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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

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If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.

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The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

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Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

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Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity

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A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.

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It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

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Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing -a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.

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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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I really don't think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there.

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No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon , the least confused thinker its Socrates , the least commonplace poet its Shakespeare .

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To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to a host, to break the covenant of bread and salt, is impossible.

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