George Bernard Shaw Quotes, People Quotes, Society Quotes

Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does.

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Morals are a luxury of the rich.

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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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Revelations: A curious record of the visions of a drug addict.

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Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord.

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The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

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I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

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Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.

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Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

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Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.

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In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.

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It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.

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O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.

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Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you.

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Property is organized robbery.

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What is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

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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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The stock actor is a stage calamity

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The most sincere form of love is love for food

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Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.

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