George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Country Quotes, Cities Quotes

Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which they live. And whatever can degrade a neighborhood can degrade a country and a continent and finally the whole civilized world, which is only a large neighborhood.

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It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

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The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.

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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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Tradition will accustom people to any atrocity

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All autobiographies are lies. I do not mean unconscious, unintentional lies: I mean deliberate lies.

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We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?

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In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

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Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.

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The devil can quote Shakespeare for his own purpose.

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It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

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Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.

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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

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The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

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Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

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The ideal love affair should be conducted by post.

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Heartbreak is life educating us.

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Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.

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You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the same opinion: stop it, flog it, hang it, dynamite it, stamp it out.

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