George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Country Quotes, Motherhood Quotes

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman's work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it.

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The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.

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Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

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We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable second-rateness of the people we do know.

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He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.

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The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.

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A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.

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New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

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I'm only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller.

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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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Very few people can afford to be poor.

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The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.

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He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

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Stimulate the phagocytes.

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We must all share in the evils of the world or move to another planet.

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A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.

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All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness.

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In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

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If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor.... Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor!

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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.

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