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Quotes By author - Starting with G - George Bernard Shaw
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There are 262 quotes for the author George Bernard Shaw
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Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
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War
Peace
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New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.
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Politics
Opinions
Human Nature
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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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Writing
Ego
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The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
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Economics
Virtue
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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.
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Cynicism
Reading
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The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
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Happiness
Time
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If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
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Humor
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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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Sports & Competition
Sarcasm
Human Nature
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Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.
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Beauty
Mortality
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I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.
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Beauty
Art
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My reputation grows with every failure.
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Reputation
Failure
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Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
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Success
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The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
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Lies
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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
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Quotations
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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
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Knowledge
Children
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An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
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Democracy
Politics
Politicians
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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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Love & Romance
Quotes from Plays
Source: The Philanderer (1898) act 2
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Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
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Democracy
Government
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The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
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Conversation
Speech
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Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
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Wisdom
Quotes from Plays
Source: Man and Superman (1903), Maxims for Revolutionists
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