Creative Quotations from . . .
George Bernard Shaw
(1856-1950) born on
Jul 26
Irish dramatist, critic. He is generally recognized as the best dramatist since Shakespeare; promoted social reform with "drama of ideas."
         
   
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F
I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

R
Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.
A
It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.
N
In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
K
Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquet by giving him away.
 


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: Alfred Doolittle, in Pygmalion, act 5.
R: The Statue, in Man and Superman, act 3.
A: Man and Superman," II
N: The Statue, in Man and Superman, act 3.
K: The Doctor's Dilemma, Preface, "Recoil of the Dogma of Medical Infallibility on the Doctor" (1911).
 

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