George Bernard Shaw
Irish-English writer and critic
Lived from: 1856 - 1950
Category: Media | Writers (Contemporary) Country: 
United Kingdom
Born: 26 july 1856 Died: 2 november 1950
Quotes 221 till 240 of 545.
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In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
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In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.
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Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
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It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.
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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
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It is a monstrous thing to force a child to learn Latin or Greek or mathematics on the ground that they are an indispensable gymnastic for the mental powers. It would be monstrous even if it were true.
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It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
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It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.
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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.
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It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.
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It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.
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It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
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It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.
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It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
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It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.
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It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.
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It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.
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It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.
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It seems as though every time you learn something new you have to give up something.
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