George Bernard Shaw Quotes, People Quotes, Good People Quotes

People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good.

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When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other author-to lead up to the interpolation for you. Never forget that the effect of a line may depend not on its delivery, but on something said earlier in the play, either by somebody else or by yourself, and that if you change it, it may be necessary to change the whole first act as well.

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It's a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter's husband. The man is at home all day, like a damned soul in hell.

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Rebecca [West] can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.

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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

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The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

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Let wife and child perish, and lay bricks for your last crust, rather than part with an iota of your [copy]rights.

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Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.

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Life's no brief candle-it's a splendid torch!

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In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god : everybody worships him and nobody does his will.

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A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.

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A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.

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Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.

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I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.

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Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.

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That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.

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

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Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

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A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.

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When I see that the nineteenth century has crowned the idolatry of Art with the deification of Love, so that every poet is supposed to have pierced to the holy of holies when he has announced that Love is the Supreme, or the Enough, or the All, I feel that Art was safer in the hands of the most fanatical of Cromwell's major generals than it will be if ever it gets into mine.

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