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George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) People exaggerate the value of things they haven’t got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn’t want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) The nation’s morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) The surest way to ruin a man who doesn’t know how to handle money is to give him some  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) Well, sir, you never can tell. That’s a principle in life with me, sir, if you’ll excuse my having such a thing  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
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