George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw: Even the youngest...

George Bernard Shaw: Even the youngest...

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Source: In The Ultimate Success...

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George Bernard Shaw: Decency is Indecency's...

George Bernard Shaw: Decency is Indecency's...

Decency is Indecency's conspiracy of silence.

Source: Man and Superman, 1903
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George Bernard Shaw: He's a gentleman:...

George Bernard Shaw: He's a gentleman:...

He's a gentleman: look at his boots.

Source: Pygmalion.
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George Bernard Shaw: I hate, performers...

George Bernard Shaw: I hate, performers...

I hate, performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.

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George Bernard Shaw: Beware of the...

George Bernard Shaw: Beware of the...

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive...

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George Bernard Shaw: General consultant to...

George Bernard Shaw: General consultant to...

General consultant to mankind.

Source: Self-description, recalled on his death 2...

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George Bernard Shaw: Do not waste...

George Bernard Shaw: Do not waste...

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the...

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George Bernard Shaw: Heaven, as conventionally...

George Bernard Shaw: Heaven, as conventionally...

Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable, that nobody has ever...

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George Bernard Shaw: I began as...

George Bernard Shaw: I began as...

I began as a passion and ended as a habit, like all husbands.

Source: In Webster's...

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George Bernard Shaw: Build a system...

George Bernard Shaw: Build a system...

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

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George Bernard Shaw: Go anywhere in...

George Bernard Shaw: Go anywhere in...

Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and really nice English people; and what do you...

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George Bernard Shaw: Do you know...

George Bernard Shaw: Do you know...

Do you know what a pessimist is? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and hates them for...

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George Bernard Shaw: I believe in...

George Bernard Shaw: I believe in...

I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of...

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George Bernard Shaw: I enjoy convalescence....

George Bernard Shaw: I enjoy convalescence....

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

Source:...

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George Bernard Shaw: Censorship ends in...

George Bernard Shaw: Censorship ends in...

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books nobody...

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George Bernard Shaw: Hamlet's experiences simply...

George Bernard Shaw: Hamlet's experiences simply...

Hamlet's experiences simply could not have happened to a plumber.

Source: In...

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George Bernard Shaw: Don't think you...

George Bernard Shaw: Don't think you...

Don't think you can frighten me by telling me I am alone. France is alone; and God is alone; and what is my loneliness...

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George Bernard Shaw: I can forgive...

George Bernard Shaw: I can forgive...

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel...

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George Bernard Shaw: I feel nothing...

George Bernard Shaw: I feel nothing...

I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the...

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George Bernard Shaw: Criminals do not...

George Bernard Shaw: Criminals do not...

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law; they die by the hands of other men.

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