George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Christmas Quotes, Hatred Quotes

Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred.

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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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Youth is just wasted on young people.

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England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

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Not until he acquires European manners does the American anarchist become the gentleman who assures you that people cannot be mademoral by Act of Parliament (the truth being that it is only by Acts of Parliament that men in large communities can be made moral, even when they want to).

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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.

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What is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

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Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.

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At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.

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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 the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

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As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read, the corruption of the schools would not matter so much if the Press were free. But the Press is not free. As it costs at least a quarter of a million of money to establish a daily newspaper in London, the newspapers are owned by rich men. And they depend on the advertisements of other rich men. Editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones.

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To the person with a toothache, even if the world is tottering, there is nothing more important than a visit to a dentist.

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I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.

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Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing.

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Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.

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We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

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A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

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Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

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We are members one of another; so that you cannot injure or help your neighbor without injuring or helping yourself.

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Hell is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

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