George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Kings Quotes, Fancy Quotes

The politician who once had to learn to flatter Kings has now to learn how to fascinate, amuse, coax, humbug, frighten, or otherwise strike the fancy of the electorate.

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What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.

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Liberty is the breath of life to nations.

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It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.

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What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

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An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

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Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

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Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.

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The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.

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There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.

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All progress means war with society.

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Music is the brandy of the damned.

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The fact is that the intrinsic worth of the book, play or whatever the author is trying to sell is the least, last factor in the the whole transaction.

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The utmost I can bear for myself in my best days is that I was one of the hundred best playwrights in the world, which is hardly a supreme distinction.

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Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.

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Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness

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Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.

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If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.

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It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good . Guarantee a man's goodness and his liberty will take care of itself. To guarantee his freedom on condition that you approve of his moral character is formally to abolish all freedom whatsoever, as every man's liberty is at the mercy of a moral indictment which any fool can trump up against everyone who violates custom, whether as a prophet or as a rascal.

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