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 81 till 100 of 545.
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Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you.
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As long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.
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As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish.
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Assassination on the scaffold is the worst form of assassination.
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Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
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Be as romantic as you please about love... but you mustn't be romantic about money.
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Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
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Being hurt by someone you truly care about leaves a hole in you heart that only love can fill.
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Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?
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Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
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Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.
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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
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Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
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Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books nobody reads.
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Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
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Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.
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Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.
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Common people do not pray; they only beg.
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Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error.
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Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.
Collected Letters (1926-195007)― George Bernard Shaw
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