George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Morning Quotes, Art Quotes

Go on writing plays, my boy, One of these days one of these London producers will go into his office and say to his secretary, "Is there a play from Shaw this morning?" and when she says, "No," he will say, "Well, then we'll have to start on the rubbish." And that's your chance, my boy.

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There is only one universal passion fear.

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He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

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People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.

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There is the eternal war between those who are in the world for what they can get out of it and those who are in the world to make it a better place for everybody to live in.

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All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport - in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy.

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If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

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I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.

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In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.

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I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.

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You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

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You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of them will tell you that they are ten times as happy

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Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.

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Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.

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The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy postulates have yet been ascertained.

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People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.

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The policy of letting things alone, in the practical sense that the Government should never interfere with business or go into business itself, is called Laisser-faire by economists and politicians. It has broken down so completely in practice that it is now discredited; but it was all the fashion in politics a hundred years ago, and is still influentially advocated by men of business and their backers who naturally would like to be allowed to make money as they please without regard to the interest of the public.

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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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There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.

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The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

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