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There are 262 quotes for the author George Bernard Shaw

Quotations 181 to 200 of 262 Results Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
Subject: Quotes from Plays
Work: Man and Superman (1903) act 3

At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not, as the Jennerians prophesied, the extermination of the human race by smallpox; on the contrary more people are now killed by vaccination than by smallpox.

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
Subject: Thinking

Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
Subject: Miscellaneous
Work: Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists

The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.
Subject: Philosophical

Hell is full of musical amateurs.
Subject: Miscellaneous

Martyrdom is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
Subject: Miscellaneous

The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
Subject: Democracy

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal and exhausting condition until death do them part.

If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative litterateur, or a musical confectioner, or a painter of fans with cupids and cocottes. Handel had power.

The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains that I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.

I absolutely forbid any such outrage.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

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

As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols or bombs without incurring any penalties.

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