George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Book Quotes

People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.

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I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference.

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With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his. . . . It would positively be a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him.

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If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.

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I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial rascality with artistic touchiness and pettishness, without being either good business men or fine judges of literature.

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The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life. We veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On the face of India are the tender expressions which carry the mark of the Creators hand.

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A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

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The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.

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If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding out that he hates you like poison, you would soon have your eyes opened. There we do unkind things in a kind way: we say bitter things in a sweet voice: we always give our friends chloroform when we tear them to pieces.

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People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them

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Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable.

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The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.

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Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

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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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Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

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The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.

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Well, upon my soul! You are not ashamed to stand there and confess yourself a disgusting drunkard.

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Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

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My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

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The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.

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