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Take Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here…
- It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.
- When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since.
- It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is…
- Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
- The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes…
- If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in…
- When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian is ill (which…
- The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always…
- What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.
- If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat
- The Anti-Vivisector does not deny that physiologists must make experiments and even take chances with new methods. He says that they must not seek knowledge…
- Life is too short for men to take it seriously.
- The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.
- 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…
- A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
- Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
- I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.
- I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.
- 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 truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any…
- Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
- If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.
- First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.
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