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George Bernard Shaw Quotes

The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary Picture Quote #1

A man’s interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself Picture Quote #1

God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists Picture Quote #1

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better Picture Quote #1

I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact Picture Quote #1

Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes Picture Quote #1

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When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part Picture Quote #1

Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex, but never warned that the strongest sexual attraction may exist between persons so incompatible in tastes and capacities that they could not endure living together for a week much less a lifetime Picture Quote #1

It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls Picture Quote #1

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one’s business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind Picture Quote #1

You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And, with due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold Picture Quote #1

Don’t order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don’t know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond Picture Quote #1

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Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited love. These are services which the weak cannot render to the strong and which the strong will not render to the weak, except when there is also a difference of sex Picture Quote #1

That is the injustice of a woman’s lot. A woman has to bring up her children; and that means to restrain them, to deny them things they want, to set them tasks, to punish them when they do wrong, to do all the unpleasant things. And then the father, who has nothing to do but pet them and spoil them, comes in when all her work is done and steals their affection from her Picture Quote #1

We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal cutlet may be white; we nail geese to a board and cram them with food because we like the taste of liver disease; we tear birds to pieces to decorate our women’s hats; we mutilate domestic animals for no reason at all except to follow an instinctively cruel fashion; and we connive at the most abominable tortures in the hope of discovering some magical cure for our own diseases by them Picture Quote #1

Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is? Picture Quote #1

The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for its wants in the order of their importance, and allowing no money to be wasted on whims and luxuries until necessities have been thoroughly served Picture Quote #1

What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game... There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife’s fidelity and his mother’s respectability Picture Quote #1

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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 my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my transfiguration and purification. You are my rapscallionly fellow vagabond, my tempter and star. I want you Picture Quote #1

Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving Picture Quote #1

A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and has energy enough to give effect to this extra vision and its valuations in whatever manner best suits his or her Picture Quote #1

People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing that criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading. It is the capacity for making good or bad art a personal matter that makes a man a critic Picture Quote #1

Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does Picture Quote #1

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get. Where there is no ventilation fresh air is declared unwholesome Picture Quote #1

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The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier: The manners and habits of a duke would cost a city clerk his situation Picture Quote #1

The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man Picture Quote #1

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it… Picture Quote #1

Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it… Picture Quote #1

Is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time Picture Quote #1

To understand a saint, you must hear the devil’s advocate; and the same is true of the artist Picture Quote #1

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The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) A man’s interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex, but never warned that the strongest sexual attraction may exist between persons so incompatible in tastes and capacities that they could not endure living together for a week much less a lifetime (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one’s business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And, with due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) Don’t order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don’t know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited love. These are services which the weak cannot render to the strong and which the strong will not render to the weak, except when there is also a difference of sex (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) That is the injustice of a woman’s lot. A woman has to bring up her children; and that means to restrain them, to deny them things they want, to set them tasks, to punish them when they do wrong, to do all the unpleasant things. And then the father, who has nothing to do but pet them and spoil them, comes in when all her work is done and steals their affection from her (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) We cut the throat of a calf and hang it up by the heels to bleed to death so that our veal cutlet may be white; we nail geese to a board and cram them with food because we like the taste of liver disease; we tear birds to pieces to decorate our women’s hats; we mutilate domestic animals for no reason at all except to follow an instinctively cruel fashion; and we connive at the most abominable tortures in the hope of discovering some magical cure for our own diseases by them (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is? (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for its wants in the order of their importance, and allowing no money to be wasted on whims and luxuries until necessities have been thoroughly served (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game... There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife’s fidelity and his mother’s respectability (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) 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 my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my transfiguration and purification. You are my rapscallionly fellow vagabond, my tempter and star. I want you (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and has energy enough to give effect to this extra vision and its valuations in whatever manner best suits his or her (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing that criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading. It is the capacity for making good or bad art a personal matter that makes a man a critic (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get. Where there is no ventilation fresh air is declared unwholesome (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier: The manners and habits of a duke would cost a city clerk his situation (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it… (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it… (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) Is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) To understand a saint, you must hear the devil’s advocate; and the same is true of the artist (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)

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