George Bernard Shaw

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Birthdate July 26, 1856

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Location Dublin, Republic of Ireland

Country Ireland

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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

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Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.

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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

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While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend:

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I'm sorry this letter is so long, I didn't have time to make it shorter.

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Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.

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Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.

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While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?

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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.

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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

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Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

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I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.

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[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

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The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.

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Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

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Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

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All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

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You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

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...the liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe any one else....

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Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.

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Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you.

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Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

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I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.

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She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

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Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity

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There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

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I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.

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To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.

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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

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The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.

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There is always danger for those who are afraid

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What we want to see is the child in pursuit of knowledge, not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

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Prof. Henry Higgins: I know your head aches; I know you're tired; I know your nerves are as raw as meat in a butcher's window. But think what you're trying to accomplish. Think what you're dealing with. The majesty and grandeur of the English language, it's the greatest possession we have. The noblest thoughts that ever flowed through the hearts of men are contained in its extraordinary, imaginative, and musical mixtures of sounds. And that's what you've set yourself out to conquer Eliza. And conquer it you will.

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I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it.

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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.

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We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.

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a pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

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A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

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I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

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

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My way of joking is to tell the truth. It

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The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

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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 continuosly until death do them part

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Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

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There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

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Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.

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What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.

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I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.

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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

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Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.

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Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

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Your friends are all the dullest dogs I know. They are not beautiful: they are only decorated. They are not clean: they are only shaved and starched. They are not dignified: they are only fashionably dressed. They are not educated: they are only college passmen. They are not religious: they are only pewrenters. They are not moral: they are only conventional. They are not virtuous: they are only cowardly. They are not even vicious: they are only

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The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.

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Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error.

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We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.

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... he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.

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The problem with communication

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BRITANNUS (shocked).

Caesar: this is not proper.

THEODOTUS (outraged).

How!

CAESAR (recovering his self-possession).

Pardon him. Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.

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