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Inspirational Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

148 Inspirational quotes by George Bernard Shaw

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George Bernard Shaw says that staying active is the only way to learn new things. He notes that peace can make people clumsy and that modern poverty feels very different from the blessed poverty spoken of in old teachings. He also jokes about preferring beer over champagne.

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Heartbreak is life educating us.

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Remember that I too am mortal.

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Happiness and Beauty are by-products.

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Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.

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Like fingerprints, all marriages are different.

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Activity is the only road to knowledge.

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Never repeat old grievances.

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Principles without programs are platitudes.

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Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.

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An actress is not a lady; at least, when she is, she is not an actress.

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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

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The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.

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You will think less of the art, when you know the artist

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The devil can quote Shakespeare for his own purpose.

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No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism.

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Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.

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If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get…

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There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an…

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It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for…

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It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.

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My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for…

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We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.

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“I hear you say 'Why?' Always 'Why?' You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and…

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“BROADBENT [stiffly]. Devil is rather a strong expression in that connexion, Mr Keegan. KEEGAN. Not from a man who knows that this…

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No Englishman is ever fairly beaten

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Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.

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All Artists are Anarchists.

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We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?

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Lack of money is the root of of all evil.

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The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

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Those who understand evil pardon it.

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Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.

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In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.

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Imagination is the beginning of creation.

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Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

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Golf is typical capitalist luncay.

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What's the use of money if you have to earn it.

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Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity

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What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

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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…

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Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

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The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child…

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

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The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its…

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A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at the age…

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But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things.

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Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

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The person who is ignorant enough to believe that his nourishment depends on meat is in a horrible dilemma.

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In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.

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