George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Drama Quotes, Something Better Quotes

The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.

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Unbounded hopes were placed on each successive extension of the electoral franchise, culminating in the enfranchisement of women.These hopes have been disappointed, because the voters, male and female, being politically untrained and uneducated, have (a) no grasp of constructive measures; (b) loathe taxation as such; (c) dislike being governed at all; and (d) dread and resent any extension of official interference as an encroachment on their personal liberty.

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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

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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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The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack.

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Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

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When men die of disease they are said to die from natural causes. When they recover (and mostly they do) the doctor gets the credit of curing them.

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Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself.

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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

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I must ... warn my readers that my attacks are directed against themselves, not against my stage figures.

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What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

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The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.

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Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.

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Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders.

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The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.

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The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it

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Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.

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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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The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

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