George Bernard Shaw Quotes - Page 18

• It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Doctors, Years, Meat

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• Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Country, Fit, Journalist

  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.1726, e-artnow

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• I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Book, Beer, Self

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• If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Done, Great Things

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• It's a pity youth is wasted on the young.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Age, Youth, Pity

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• Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Death, Religious, People

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.534, e-artnow

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• All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Change, Success, Creativity

  Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903) See Hawthorne 18

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• When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Bad Man

  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.1662, e-artnow

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• We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science is always wrong; it is the very artifice of men. Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Science, Men, Humanity

  Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms”, p.33, Courier Corporation

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• The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Christian, Men, Want Something

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• A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Retirement, Work, Holiday

  Misalliance preface (1914)

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Political, Liberty, Minutes

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.305, e-artnow

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• I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Appreciation, Land, Usual

  George Bernard Shaw (1977). “The Portable Bernard Shaw”, Viking Adult

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• Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Hands, Miracle, Surround

  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.2302, e-artnow

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• We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Pain, Years, Boards

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• Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Path, Talent, Immortality

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• From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Educational, School

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• I appeal to the chemists to discover a humane gas that will kill instantly and painlessly. In short- a gentlemanly gas deadly by all means, but humane, not cruel.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mean, Appeals, Gas

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• Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Bible, Pygmalion, Native Language

  George Bernard Shaw (2016). “Pygmalion”, p.16, Xist Publishing

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• Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Selfish, Work, 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.1695, e-artnow

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• What I say today everybody will say tomorrow, though they will not remember who put it into their heads. Indeed they will be right for I never remember who puts things into my head : it is the Zeitgeist.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Today, Tomorrow, Remember

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• When men die of disease they are said to die from
  natural causes. When they recover (and mostly they do)
  the doctor gets the credit of curing them.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Doctors, Credit

  From his Preface on Doctors published with The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)

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• Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Art

  George Bernard Shaw (1988). “Collected letters: 1926-1950”, Vintage

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

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Time, Pain

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• What is self-control? It is nothing but a highly developed vital sense, dominating and regulating the mere appetites. To overlook the very existence of this supreme sense; to miss the obvious inference that it is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Self, Self Control, Quality

  "The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929".

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