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Book Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.
- For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a…
- How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
- You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why…
- The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now.
- Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
- All great truths begin as blasphemies.
- I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
- Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
- I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals…
- While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he…
- Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
- Captain Shotover: How much does your soul eat? Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and lakes and beautiful…
- A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.
- There is, on the whole, nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school. To begin with, it is a prison. But…
- Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is superfluous.
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