George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Gentleman Quotes, May Quotes

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.

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Ye poor posterity, think not that ye are the first. Other fools before ye have seen the sun rise and set, and the moon change her shape and her hour. As they were so ye are; and yet not so great; for the pyramids my people built stand to this day; whilst the dustheaps on which ye slave, and which ye call empires, scatter in the wind even as ye pile your dead sons' bodies on them to make yet more dust.

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The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist

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A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.

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The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.

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All professions are conspiracies against the laity.

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Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

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You will think less of the art, when you know the artist

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I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.

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Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives

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Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.

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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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Unless the law of marriage were first made human, it could never become divine.

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If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.

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Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

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A critic is one who leaves no turn unstoned.

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Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.

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The harder I work the more I live.

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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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He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it.

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