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Character Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.
- Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
- I also made it quite clear that Socialism means equality of income or nothing, and that under socialism you would not be allowed to be…
- It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be…
- The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.
- Have you ever met a man of good character where women are concerned?
- 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…
- If there is anything I hate in a woman, it's want of character.
- If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
- The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
- Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
- The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
- Between persons of equal income there is no social distinction except the distinction of merit. Money is nothing: character, conduct, and capacity are everything. There…
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