Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

Irish-English writer and critic

Lived from: 1856 - 1950

Category: Media | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 26 july 1856 Died: 2 november 1950

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  • I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
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  • I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.
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  • I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.
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  • I want to be all used up when I die.
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  • I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
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  • I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.
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  • I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.
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  • I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.
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  • I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.
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  • I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.
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  • I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler.
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  • Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.
    The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism (1928)
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  • If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
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  • If all the economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
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  • If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.
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  • If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.
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  • If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
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  • If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.
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  • If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.
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  • if only I could still hear the wind in the trees, the larks in the sunshine, the young lambs crying through the healthy frost, and the blessed blessed church bells that send my angel voices floating to me on the wind.
    Saint Joan (1924)
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