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Against Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- All professions are conspiracies against the laity.
- Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.
- The notion that persons should be safe from extermination as long as they do not commit willful murder, or levy war against the Crown, or…
- If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat
- The medieval doctors of divinity who did not pretend to settle how many angels could dance on the point of a needle cut a very…
- All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel…
- With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise…
- Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.
- The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child…
- Marx's Kapital is not a treatise on socialism; it is a gerrymand against the bourgeoisie. It was supposed to be written for the working class,…
- It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good . Guarantee a man's goodness…
- The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
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