George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Life Quotes

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

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Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing self-sacrifice on a woman under the pretense that she likes it.

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For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window.

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The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.

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There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.

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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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Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.

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All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.

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There is nothing on earth more exquisite than a bonny book, with well-placed columns of rich black writing in beautiful borders, and illuminated pictures cunningly inset. But nowadays, instead of looking at books, people read them. A book might as well be one of those orders for bacon and bran.

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Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.

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Assassination on the scaffold is the worst form of assassination.

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In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.

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It's usually pointed out that women are not fit for political power, and ought not to be trusted with a vote because they are politically ignorant, socially prejudiced, narrow-minded, and selfish. True enough, but precisely the same is true of men!

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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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During the last considerable epidemic at the turn of the century, I was a member of the Health Committee of London Borough Council, and I learned how the credit of vaccination is kept up statistically by diagnosing all the revaccinated cases (of smallpox) as pustular eczema, varioloid or what not---except smallpox.

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

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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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Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which they live. And whatever can degrade a neighborhood can degrade a country and a continent and finally the whole civilized world, which is only a large neighborhood.

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The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.

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An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.

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