George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Bible Quotes, Pygmalion Quotes

Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.

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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

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If you demand my authorities for this and that, I must reply that only those who have never hunted up the authorities as I have believe that there is any authority who is not contradicted flatly by some other authority.

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Has fear ever held a man back from anything he really wanted?

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Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.

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If we have come to think that the nursery and the kitchen are the natural sphere of a woman, we have done so exactly as English children come to think that a cage is the natural sphere of a parrot: because they have never seen one anywhere else.

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The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

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Geniuses are horrid, intolerant, easily offended, sleeplessly self-conscious men, who expect their wives to be angels with no further business in life than to pet and worship their husbands. Even at the best they are not comfortable men to live with; and a perfect husband is one who is perfectly comfortable to live with.

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While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: "To ----, with esteem, George Bernard Shaw." He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: "With renewed esteem, George Bernard Shaw.

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Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it...

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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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Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes

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The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.

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Imprisonment is as irrevocable as death.

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The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.

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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

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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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God help England if she had no Scots to think for her.

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The person I miss most is the one I could have been.

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You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

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