George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Men Quotes, People Quotes

A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often found that he is absentminded andobserves much less than other people.... Why is it that the public have such an exaggerated respect for him--after he is dead? The reason is that the man of genius understands the importance of the few things he sees.

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He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him

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When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.

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Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing.

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Faith in reason as a prime motor is no longer the criterion of the sound mind, any more than faith in the Bible is the criterion of righteous intention.

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Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages. He who can, does. He who cannot teaches.

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We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

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You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'.

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History, sir, will tell lies as usual.

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Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

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It's prudent to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. But don't forget that your soul sticks to you if you stick to it; but the world has a way of slipping through your fingers.

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Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

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No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else.

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We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.

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We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now

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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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A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

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That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.

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There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.

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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

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