George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Men Quotes, Thinking Quotes

Men are always thinking that they are going to do something grandly wicked to their enemies; but when it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

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

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When domestic servants are treated as human beings it is not worth while to keep them.

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When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

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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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Pothinus: "Is it possible that Caesar, the conqueror of the world, has time to occupy himself with such a trifle as our taxes?" Caesar: "My friend, taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.

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I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the destruction of the fools who misuse it.

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Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

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Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.

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I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all.

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If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.

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Some persons, by hating vice too much, come to love men too little. Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred is the cowards revenge for being intimidated.

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God is on the side of the big battalions.

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Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus.

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Fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world, excepting only the example of personal conduct; and I waive even this exception in favor of the art of the stage, because it works by exhibiting examples of personal conduct made intelligible and moving to crowds of unobservant unreflecting people to whom real life means nothing.

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When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.

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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

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Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist.

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Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.

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People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.

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