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
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We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.
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We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.
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We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.
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We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.
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We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
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We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time; or we shall stick in the mud.
Back to Methuselah (1978) 443― George Bernard Shaw -
We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.
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We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?
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We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!
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Well, dearie, men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. But you can't blame them for that, can you?
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What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.
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What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?
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What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say ''I know'' instead of ''I am learning,'' and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.
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What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.
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What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
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What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.
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What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead.
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What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
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What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.
― George Bernard Shaw
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