George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Men Quotes, Progress Quotes

[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.

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He who bears the brand of Cain shall rule the earth.

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If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

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The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.

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It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.

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Woman's happiness begins with her first love and ends about then

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When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with. I gave you eternity in a single moment, strength of the mountains in one clasp of your arms, and the volume of all the seas in one impulse of your soul.

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As you say, I am honoured and famous and rich. But as I have to do all the hard work, and suffer an increasing multitude of fools gladly, it does not feel any better than being reviled, infamous and poor, as I used to be.

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There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

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If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.

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No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else.

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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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What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

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Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the style of Italian opera.

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The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

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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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It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

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There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles; he bullies you on manly principles; he supports his king on loyal principles and cuts off his king's head on republican principles.

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Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

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Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.

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