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 61 till 80 of 545.
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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)― George Bernard Shaw -
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.
George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays― George Bernard Shaw -
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― George Bernard Shaw -
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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