George Bernard Shaw Quotes, New York Quotes, Idols Quotes

You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of hell: All hope abandon ye who enter here.

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I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.

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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 British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.

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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

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You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can produce a wrong answer.

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Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited love. These are services which the weak cannot render to the strong and which the strong will not render to the weak, except when there is also a difference of sex.

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Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.

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No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.

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The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.

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Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money.

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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

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When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

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

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To a professional critic (I have been one myself) theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is paid to endure in the sweat of his brow; and the sooner it is over, the better.

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The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are "not for an age, but for all time" has his reward in being unreadable inall ages.... The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only sort of man who writes about all people and about all time.

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You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

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There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles; he bullies you on manly principles; he supports his king on loyal principles and cuts off his king's head on republican principles.

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You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.

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