George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Mean Quotes, Sacrifice Quotes

Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing self-sacrifice on a woman under the pretense that she likes it.

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The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.

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The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.

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What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead.

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Schools must not become the agencies through which propaganda advocated by any section of society is spread. The method of control always a crucial problem should be in harmony with the fundamental values and principles of the states and the entire e

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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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Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one.

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I don't know what to say about this book. The experience on which it is founded is so extraordinary, that an honest record of it should be preserved . . . But it would have driven me mad; and I am not sure that the author came out of it without a slight derangement.

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When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, "The one I feed the most."

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Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.

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Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

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There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.

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Deep knowledge is not knowledge of the thing itself, but knowledge of a thing like the thing. Then, you gain not one knowledge, but two knowledges. Of the thing. And of the original thing with is like the thing. Which is the barbarism of the privileged class.

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Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited love. These are services which the weak cannot render to the strong and which the strong will not render to the weak, except when there is also a difference of sex.

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Just as the historian can teach no real history until he has cured his readers of the romantic delusion that the greatness of a queen consists in her being a pretty woman and having her head cut off, so the playwright of the first order can do nothing with his audience until he has cured them of looking at the stage through the keyhole, and sniffing round the theatre as prurient people sniff round the divorce court.

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I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.

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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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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.

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Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

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Youth is just wasted on young people.

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