George Bernard Shaw Quotes, World Quotes

The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.

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Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.

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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty . . . . Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys basic people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.

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The haughty American nation ... makes the Negro clean its boots and then proves the moral and physical inferiority of the Negro by the fact that he is a bootblack.

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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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There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

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An index is a great leveller.

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What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?.

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My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.

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Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.

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The body was the slave of the vortex; but the slave has become the master; and we must free ourselves from that tyranny. It is this stuff [ indicating her body ], this flesh and blood and bone and all the rest of it, that is intolerable. Even prehistoric man dreamed of what he called an astral body, and asked who would deliver him from the body of this death.

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The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

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It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls.

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If all the Churches of Europe closed their doors until the drums ceased rolling they would act as a most powerful reminder that though the glory of war is a famous and ancient glory, it is not the final glory of God.

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The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

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Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

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To a professional critic (I have been one myself) theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is paid to endure in the sweat of his brow; and the sooner it is over, the better.

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Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one.

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I have studied him - the wonderful man - and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be called the saviour of humanity.

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Discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher.

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