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 great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.
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  • The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.
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  • The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.
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  • The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.
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  • The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial. The camera is so utterly unmechanical.
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  • The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.
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  • The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.
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  • The lesson intended by an author is hardly ever the lesson the world chooses to learn from his book.
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  • The liar's punishment, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
    Quintessence Of Ibsenism
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  • The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
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  • 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!
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  • The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
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  • The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.
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  • The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
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  • The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
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  • The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.
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  • The minorities are sometimes right. The majorities never.
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  • The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
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  • The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
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  • The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
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