George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Struggle Quotes, Ambition Quotes

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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The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

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Hurrah for revolution and more cannon-shot! A beggar upon horseback lashes a beggar on foot. Hurrah for revolution and cannon come again! The beggars have changed places, but the lash goes on.

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The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.

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Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.

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As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.

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The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.

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When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.

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Just as the historian can teach no real history until he has cured his readers of the romantic delusion that the greatness of a queen consists in her being a pretty woman and having her head cut off, so the playwright of the first order can do nothing with his audience until he has cured them of looking at the stage through the keyhole, and sniffing round the theatre as prurient people sniff round the divorce court.

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I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me as a lady, and always will.

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Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.

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Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.

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If you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all.

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Now that we have learned to fly the air like birds, swim under water like fish, we lack one thing - to learn to live on earth as human beings.

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Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

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This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby.

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While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

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The notion that inspiration is something that happened thousands of years ago, and was then finished and done with. . . the theory that God retired from business at that period and has not been heard from since, is as silly as it is blasphemous.

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If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.

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Even a vortex is a vortex in something. You can't have a whirlpool without water; and you can't have a vortex without gas, or molecules or atoms or ions or electrons or something, not nothing.

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