George Bernard Shaw Quotes - Page 11

• After studying the Hungarian language for years, I can confidently conclude that had Hungarian been my mother tongue, it would have been more precious. Simply because through this extraordinary, ancient and powerful language it is possible to precisely describe the tiniest differences and the most secretive tremors of emotions.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mother, Powerful, Years

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• Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Plato, Responsibility, Men

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2587, e-artnow

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• People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them

  George Bernard Shaw

  People, Worship, Havens

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• Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap

  George Bernard Shaw

  Stamps, Objects, Delivering

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Games, Political, Police

  Misalliance (1914) p. 85

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• We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Not Good Enough, Half, Educate

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• A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Happiness, Laughter

  Man and Superman act 1 (1903)

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• We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Heart, Firsts, Needs

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.497, e-artnow

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• What is life but a series of inspired follies.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Pygmalion, Inspired, What Is Life

  George Bernard Shaw (2016). “Pygmalion”, Xist Publishing

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• The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Tired, Mean, Secret

  Parents and Children (1914) "Children's Happiness"

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• I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Women, Stupid, Brain

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• A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Family, Members, Tyranny

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• In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as 1 percent of us could give physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Believe, Science, Giving

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Learning, Flattery, Imitation

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• No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Doubt, Rebellious, Easy

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• I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil ; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Evil, Good And Evil, Justified

  George Bernard Shaw (2010). “Back to Methuselah”, p.546, The Floating Press

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• The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Atheist, If There Is A God, Religion

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3238, e-artnow

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• When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Military, Men, Locks

  'Man and Superman' (1903) act 3

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• I have very carefully studied Islam and the life of its Prophet (PBUH). I have done so both as a student of history and as a critic. And I have come to conclusion that Muhammad (PBUH) was indeed a great man and a deliverer and benefactor of mankind which was till then writhing under the most agonising Pain.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Pain, Men, Islam

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• It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Faith, Work

  Candida (1898) act 1

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• Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes

  George Bernard Shaw

  Eggs, Judging, Judgement

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• Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Law, Justice

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3024, e-artnow

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• A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Witty, Fashion

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• A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and has energy enough to give effect to this extra vision and its valuations in whatever manner best suits his or her

  George Bernard Shaw

  People, Giving, Vision

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• Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Clever, Silly, Writing

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