George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Religious Quotes, Church Quotes

I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.

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The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.

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Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.

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Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.

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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

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A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.

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Patriotism is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

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Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.

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Every profession is a conspiracy against the laity.

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People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.

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Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others.

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Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

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I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.

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Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable.

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Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.

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The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.

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Perhaps I had better inform my Protestant readers that the famous Dogma of Papal Infallibility is by far the most modest pretension of the kind in existence. Compared with our infallible democracies, our infallible medical councils, our infallible astronomers, our infallible judges, and our infallible parliaments, the Pope is on his knees in the dust confessing his ignorance before the throne of God, asking only that as to certain historical matters on which he has clearly more sources of information open to him than anyone else his decision shall be taken as final.

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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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All great art and literature is propaganda.

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Compassion is the fellow-feeling of the unsound.

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