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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  • The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
    The Devil's Disciple (1901)
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  • 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.
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  • The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
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  • The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.
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  • 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.
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  • The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.
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  • The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.
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  • The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
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  • The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
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  • The fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary to examine carefully everything we have become accustomed to.
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  • The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
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  • The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
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  • The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
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  • The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it 'CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL'; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.
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  • The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.
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  • The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.
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  • The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
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  • The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
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  • The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
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  • The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.
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