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
Quotes 501 till 520 of 545.
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What's the use of money if you have to earn it.
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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.
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When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
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When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
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When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since.
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When I speak of The Case for Equality I mean human equality; and that, of course, can only mean one thing: it means equality of income.
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When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.
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When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
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When men die of disease they are said to die from
natural causes. When they recover (and mostly they do)
the doctor gets the credit of curing them.― George Bernard Shaw -
When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.
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When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change
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When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.
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When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.
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When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
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When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do, that is law, order, and morals.
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Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.
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Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.
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Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.
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Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.
― George Bernard Shaw
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