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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  • Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
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  • A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.
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  • All problems are finally scientific problems.
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  • All professions are conspiracies against the laity.
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  • Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
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  • Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
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  • Better keep yourself clean and bright. You are the window through which you must see the world.
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  • Better never than late.
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  • Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.
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  • But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
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  • Don't wait for the right opportunity: create it.
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  • Life is a first draft... with no rewrite.
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  • Man's inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals.
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  • Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization.
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  • Self-denial is not a virtue, it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
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  • Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?
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  • The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.
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  • The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.
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  • When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.
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  • Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
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