George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Sarcastic Quotes, Respect Quotes

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

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Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find? That the stables are the real centre of the household.

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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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The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.

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When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do, that is law, order, and morals.

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Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.

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No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

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Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.

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And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.

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If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.

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I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.

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Religion is a good invention in times of stress.

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The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.

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All problems are finally scientific problems.

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Style is effectiveness of assertion.

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Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

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It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman.

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It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.

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Your wits can't thicken in that soft moist air, on those white springy roads, in those misty rushes and brown bogs, on those hillsides of granite rocks and magenta heather. You've no such colours in the sky, no such lure in the distances, no such sadness in the evenings. Oh the dreaming! the dreaming! the torturing, heart-scalding, never satisfying dreaming, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming!

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Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.

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