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 141 till 160 of 545.
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He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.
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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
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He who has never hoped can never despair.
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Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.
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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
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Hell is full of musical amateurs.
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Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.
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Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.
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Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
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How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.
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How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
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Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
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I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.
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I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all.
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I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
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I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
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I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.
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I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.
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I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.
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I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.
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