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Been Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.
- Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to…
- When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since.
- The notion that inspiration is something that happened thousands of years ago, and was then finished and done with. . . the theory that God…
- My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School…
- Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.
- I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder…
- Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.
- I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian.
- I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at home. It is…
- After studying the Hungarian language for years, I can confidently conclude that had Hungarian been my mother tongue, it would have been more precious. Simply…
- It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and…
- Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.
- I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants as a nation…
- The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.
- There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates , who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors, have not been…
- Women are not angels. They are as foolish as men in many ways; but they have had to devote themselves to life whilst men have…
- A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having 'a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures.' Perhaps dread would have been nearer the mark than…
- Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
- All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
- Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of…
- The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for its wants in…
- A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.
- I write plays because I like it and because I cannot remember any period in my life when I could have been inventing people and…
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