English Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

8 English quotes by George Bernard Shaw

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George Bernard Shaw’s concise remarks on English showcase his sharp humor and social critique. The limited set still delivers his characteristic incisiveness.

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Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

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We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

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It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

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“I know your head aches. I know you're tired. I know your nerves are as raw as meat in a butcher's window.…

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The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

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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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If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.

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I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.

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Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

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In the arts of life, man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery…

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“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire…

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