George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Dream Quotes, Years Quotes

In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.

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No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else.

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Hollywood keeps before its child audiences a string of glorified young heroes, everyone of whom is an unhesitating and violent Anarchist. His one answer to everything that annoys him or disparages his country or his parents or his young lady or his personal code of manly conduct is to give the offender a "sock" in the jaw.... My observation leads me to believe that it is not the virtuous people who are good at socking jaws.

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Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the style of Italian opera.

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Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace.

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Men get tired of everything, of heaven no less than of hell; and that all history is nothing but a record of the oscillations of the world between these two extremes. An epoch is but a swing of the pendulum; and each generation thinks the world is progressing because it is always moving.

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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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No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism.

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A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.

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People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good.

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Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

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Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.

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Just as the liar 's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed , but that he cannot believe any one else; so a guilty society can more easily be persuaded that any apparently innocent act is guilty than that any apparently guilty act is innocent.

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My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen.

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I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

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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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My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

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The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.

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The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.

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Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.

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