George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Kings Quotes, Fancy Quotes

The politician who once had to learn to flatter Kings has now to learn how to fascinate, amuse, coax, humbug, frighten, or otherwise strike the fancy of the electorate.

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There is the eternal war between those who are in the world for what they can get out of it and those who are in the world to make it a better place for everybody to live in.

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When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.

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After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.

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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 aint such a mug as to put up my children to all I know myself.

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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.

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

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Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

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To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.

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I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

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The business man - the man to whom age brings golf instead of wisdom.

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It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman.

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Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do

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

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The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it.

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People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

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Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.

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Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.

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