George Bernard Shaw Quotes, People Quotes, Weakness Quotes

Even to this day it is easier than it ought to be for me to get a rise out of an American by telling him something about himself which is equally true about every human being on the face of the globe. He at once resents this as a disparagement and an assertion on my part that people in other parts of the globe are not like that, and are loftily superior to such weaknesses.

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The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

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I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.

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Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

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We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science is always wrong; it is the very artifice of men. Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

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The 100% American is 99% idiot.

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Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence.

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

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I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it.

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The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions.

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It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.

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Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one.

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Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

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

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Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

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We all have--to put it as nicely as I can--our lower centres and our higher centres. Our lower centres act: they act with terriblepower that sometimes destroys us; but they don't talk.... Since the war the lower centres have become vocal. And the effect is that of an earthquake. For they speak truths that have never been spoken before--truths that the makers of our domestic institutions have tried to ignore.

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I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.

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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

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The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.

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