George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw: We are a...

George Bernard Shaw: We are a...

We are a nation of governesses.

Source: New Statesman (London, 12 April...

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George Bernard Shaw: This comes of...

George Bernard Shaw: This comes of...

This comes of James teaching me to think for myself, and never to hold back out of fear of what other people may think...

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George Bernard Shaw: We must not...

George Bernard Shaw: We must not...

We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we...

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George Bernard Shaw: There is nothing...

George Bernard Shaw: There is nothing...

There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early...

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George Bernard Shaw: There are millions...

George Bernard Shaw: There are millions...

There are millions of vegetarians in the world but only one Bernard Shaw. You do not obtain eminence quite so cheaply...

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George Bernard Shaw: We're from Madeira,...

George Bernard Shaw: We're from Madeira,...

We're from Madeira, but perfectly respectable, so far.

Source: You Never Can Tell,...

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George Bernard Shaw: Virtue consists, not...

George Bernard Shaw: Virtue consists, not...

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

Source:...

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George Bernard Shaw: Well, sir, you...

George Bernard Shaw: Well, sir, you...

Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing,...

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George Bernard Shaw: They all thought...

George Bernard Shaw: They all thought...

They all thought she was dead; but my father he kept ladling gin down her throat till she came to so sudden that she...

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George Bernard Shaw: Titles distinguish the...

George Bernard Shaw: Titles distinguish the...

Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the...

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George Bernard Shaw: What is laisser-faire...

George Bernard Shaw: What is laisser-faire...

What is laisser-faire but an orthodoxy? The most tyrannous and disastrous of all the orthodoxies, since it forbids...

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George Bernard Shaw: Virtue is insufficient...

George Bernard Shaw: Virtue is insufficient...

Virtue is insufficient temptation.

Source:
-- George Bernard Shaw, (Jul 26...

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George Bernard Shaw: What is the...

George Bernard Shaw: What is the...

What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true...

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George Bernard Shaw: Though I can...

George Bernard Shaw: Though I can...

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

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George Bernard Shaw: Truth telling is...

George Bernard Shaw: Truth telling is...

Truth telling is not compatible with the defence of the realm.

Source: Heartbreak...

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George Bernard Shaw: What we call...

George Bernard Shaw: What we call...

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of...

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George Bernard Shaw: We know now...

George Bernard Shaw: We know now...

We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to...

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George Bernard Shaw: When Satan makes...

George Bernard Shaw: When Satan makes...

When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.

Source:...

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George Bernard Shaw: To correct an...

George Bernard Shaw: To correct an...

To correct an Englishman's pronunciation is to imply that he is not quite a gentleman.

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George Bernard Shaw: Vulgarity in a...

George Bernard Shaw: Vulgarity in a...

Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

Source: Man and Superman, ...

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