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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  • Activity is the only road to knowledge.
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  • After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.
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  • Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.
    Major Barbara (1907)
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  • Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
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  • All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.
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  • All great truths begin as blasphemies.
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  • All my plays are masterpieces except the last one.
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  • All progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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  • All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions.
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  • All progress means war with society.
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  • All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness.
    The Adventures Of Black Girl in Her Search for God 8
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  • All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of story-tellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.
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  • All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.
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  • Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes.
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  • Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
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  • An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means. There is no such thing in the country.
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  • An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
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  • An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.
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  • An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
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  • An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
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