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Say Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding…
- You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can…
- I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power…
- What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead…
- A dinner! How horrible! I am to be made the pretext for killing all those wretched animals and birds, and fish! Thank you for nothing.…
- We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we…
- In the right key one can say anything. In the wrong key, nothing: the only delicate part is the establishment of the key.
- You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? . . .…
- Every man to whom salvation is offered has an inalienable natural right to say 'No, thank you: I prefer to retain my full moral responsibility:…
- If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble…
- If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this : God is.
- 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…
- Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.
- What I say today everybody will say tomorrow, though they will not remember who put it into their heads. Indeed they will be right for…
- It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of…
- Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
- People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
- I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
- Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
- My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
- The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison,…
- You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'.
- Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'
- We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy
- You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'
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