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Something Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it…
- The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are…
- The notion that inspiration is something that happened thousands of years ago, and was then finished and done with. . . the theory that God…
- Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.
- 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…
- If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community
- A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.
- He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power…
- When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency,…
- Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.
- Even a vortex is a vortex in something. You can't have a whirlpool without water; and you can't have a vortex without gas, or molecules…
- The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
- When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
- Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
- You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
- I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.
- [Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
- Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.
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