George Bernard Shaw Quotes, New York Quotes, Idols Quotes

You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of hell: All hope abandon ye who enter here.

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Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.

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Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use.

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A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

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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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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.

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A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.

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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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Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.

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The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.

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Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out.

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All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.

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I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

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A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

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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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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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Dancing is a very crude attempt to get into the rhythm of life.

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Capitalism drives the employers to do their worst to the employed, and the employed to do the least for them. And it boasts all the time of the incentive it provides to both to do their best! . . . The reason the Capitalist system has worked so far without jamming for more than a few months at a time, and then only in places, is that it has not yet succeeded in making a conquest of human nature so complete that everybody acts on strictly business principles.

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I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil ; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.

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Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as Louis Treize felt toward Richelieu.

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