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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  • There are two things necessary to Salvation: money and gunpowder.
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  • There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
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  • There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.
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  • There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
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  • There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
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  • There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
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  • There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe.
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  • There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.
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  • There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
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  • There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.
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  • There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.
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  • This comes of James teaching me to think for myself, and never to hold back out of fear of what other people may think of me. It works beautifully as long as I think the same things as he does.
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  • This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.
    Man and Superman (1903) Epistle dedicatory
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  • Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.
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  • Those who can’t change their minds can’t change anything.
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  • Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.
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  • Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.
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  • To be a champion you must live like one.
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  • To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.
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  • To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.
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