George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Art Quotes, Real Quotes

Fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world, excepting only the example of personal conduct; and I waive even this exception in favor of the art of the stage, because it works by exhibiting examples of personal conduct made intelligible and moving to crowds of unobservant unreflecting people to whom real life means nothing.

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Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.

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Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.

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Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot! A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot. Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.

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I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit

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Our prejudices are so deeply rooted that we never think of them as prejudices but call them common sense.

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An interesting play cannot in the nature of things mean anything but a play in which problems of conduct and character of personalimportance to the audience are raised and suggestively discussed.

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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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Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.

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There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

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The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

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Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

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Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it.

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He who bears the brand of Cain shall rule the earth.

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The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

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If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

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No Englishman is ever fairly beaten

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I loathe the mess of mean superstitions and misunderstood prophecies which is still rammed down the throats of children under the name of Christianity.

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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

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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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