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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  • Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.
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  • Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
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  • Death is for many of us the gate of hell;
    but we are inside on the way out,
    not outside on the way in.
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  • Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!
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  • Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
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  • Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
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  • Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged class.
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  • Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
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  • Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.
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  • Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.
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  • Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing -a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.
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  • Effectiveness of assertion is the alpha and omega of style.
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  • Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.
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  • England and America are two countries separated by a common language.
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  • English is the easiest language to speak badly.
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  • Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.
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  • Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.
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  • Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.
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  • Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.
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  • Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.
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