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George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport, we still snatch at every excuse for declaring individuals outside the protection of law and torturing them to our hearts content  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) I can’t turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with. I gave you eternity in a single moment, strength of the mountains in one clasp of your arms, and the volume of all the seas in one impulse of your soul  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) I sold flowers. I didn’t sell myself. Now you’ve made a lady of me I’m not fit to sell anything else  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes) You know well I couldn’t bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it’s wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could  (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
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