George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Real Quotes, Thinking Quotes

You're only a beginner; and what you think is love, and interest, and all that, is not real love at all: three quarters of it is only unsatisfied curiosity.

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From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.

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The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large, but mostly one who, through ignorance or stupidity [or racism or poverty! - Draffan] steals in a way that is not customary. He snatches a loaf from the baker's counter and is promptly run into gaol. Another man snatches bread from the table of hundreds of widows and orphans and similar credulous souls who do not know the ways of company promoters; and, as likely as not, he is run into Parliament.

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If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this : God is.

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The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

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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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It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.

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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

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You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

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It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

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Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap

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When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport, we still snatch at every excuse for declaring individuals outside the protection of law and torturing them to our hearts content.

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The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.

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Be like the sun and meadow, which are not in the least concerned about the coming winter.

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Who are those we love? Only those we do not hate.

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

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How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.

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The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.

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The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.

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I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

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