Book Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.”

George Bernard Shaw

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I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.

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Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

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In the arts of life, man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery…

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“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of…

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What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

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You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are…

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Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

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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, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within…

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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

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The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its…

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A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at the age…

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But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things.

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