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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  • I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
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  • I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.
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  • I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.
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  • I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
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  • I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.
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  • I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies.
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  • I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.
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  • I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
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  • I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
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  • I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.
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  • I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?
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  • I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.
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  • I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination.
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  • I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
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  • I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
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  • I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.
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  • I never expect a soldier to think.
    The Devil's Disciple (1901)
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  • I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
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  • I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
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  • I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.
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