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Some Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
- 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…
- The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right…
- The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be…
- My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately
- There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents…
- It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
- When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other author-to lead up…
- I fought linotype and montype for some time because it would not justify as well as handset could be made to do; but at last,…
- 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 surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.
- The censorship method ... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent on the assumption…
- The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no man…
- Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?
- Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.
- Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
- The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.
- 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…
- We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal cutlet may be…
- A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.
- Perhaps you know some well-off families who do not seem to suffer from their riches. They do not overeat themselves; they find occupations to keep…
- Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'
- Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.
- Somewhere, somewhere in time's own space, there must be some sweet pastured place. Where creeks sing on and tall trees grow, some Paradise where horses…
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