George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw: I showed my...

George Bernard Shaw: I showed my...

I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way by getting out of it as soon as I possibly...

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George Bernard Shaw: How can what...

George Bernard Shaw: How can what...

How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.

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George Bernard Shaw: It is the...

George Bernard Shaw: It is the...

It is the sexless novel that should be distinguished: the sex novel is now normal.

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George Bernard Shaw: In literature the...

George Bernard Shaw: In literature the...

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid...

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George Bernard Shaw: Fame is like...

George Bernard Shaw: Fame is like...

Fame is like a river, that beareth things light and swollen, and drowns things weighty and...

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George Bernard Shaw: I wish all...

George Bernard Shaw: I wish all...

I wish all Americans were as blind as you.

Source: Speaking to Helen Keller....

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George Bernard Shaw: Human beings are...

George Bernard Shaw: Human beings are...

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

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George Bernard Shaw: Kings are not...

George Bernard Shaw: Kings are not...

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

Source: Man and...

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George Bernard Shaw: In the arts...

George Bernard Shaw: In the arts...

In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.

Source: In Webster's Electronic Quotebase,...

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George Bernard Shaw: Find enough clever...

George Bernard Shaw: Find enough clever...

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a...

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George Bernard Shaw: I'm not a...

George Bernard Shaw: I'm not a...

I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead -- ahead of myself as well as...

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George Bernard Shaw: I am sick...

George Bernard Shaw: I am sick...

I am sick of reasonable people: they see all the reasons for being lazy and doing nothing.

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George Bernard Shaw: LORD NORTHCLIFFE. The...

George Bernard Shaw: LORD NORTHCLIFFE. The...

LORD NORTHCLIFFE. The trouble with you, Shaw, is that you look as if there were famine in the land.
G.B.S. The...

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George Bernard Shaw: It is the...

George Bernard Shaw: It is the...

It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their...

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George Bernard Shaw: Gambling promises the...

George Bernard Shaw: Gambling promises the...

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich -- something for nothing.

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George Bernard Shaw: If history repeats...

George Bernard Shaw: If history repeats...

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from...

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George Bernard Shaw: I don't know...

George Bernard Shaw: I don't know...

I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic...

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George Bernard Shaw: Man gives every...

George Bernard Shaw: Man gives every...

Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save...

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George Bernard Shaw: It was from...

George Bernard Shaw: It was from...

It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.

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George Bernard Shaw: Go on writing...

George Bernard Shaw: Go on writing...

Go on writing plays, my boy, One of these days one of these London producers will go into his office and say to his...

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