George Bernard Shaw Quotes - Page 19

• Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom

  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.314, e-artnow

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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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• NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Funny, Humor, Soldier

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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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• Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Vices, Virtue

  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.4489, e-artnow

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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.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Truth, Political, Politics

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• When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Family, Home, Thinking

  George Bernard Shaw (2004). “Heartbreak House”, p.63, 1st World Publishing

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• I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Government, Hands, Political

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• A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often found that he is absentminded andobserves much less than other people.... Why is it that the public have such an exaggerated respect for him--after he is dead? The reason is that the man of genius understands the importance of the few things he sees.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, People, Genius

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• Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sarcastic, Respect, Mean

  George Bernard Shaw (2004). “Fanny's First Play”, p.85, 1st World Publishing

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• God is on the side of the big battalions.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sides, Bigs, Total War

  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.4161, e-artnow

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• Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Father, Skins, Fool

  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.3816, e-artnow

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• In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Fighting, Winning, Blood

  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.2046, e-artnow

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• The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for its wants in the order of their importance, and allowing no money to be wasted on whims and luxuries until necessities have been thoroughly served.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Order, Luxury, Want

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• Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Food, Disease, Vegetarian

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• I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Funny, Travel

  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.1013, e-artnow

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• My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Wise, Trouble, Public Speaking

  "Answers to Nine Questions". Interview with Clarence Rook, 1895.

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• Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Dying, Live For Today, Merit

  George Bernard Shaw (2004). “Heartbreak House”, p.15, 1st World Publishing

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• Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence

  George Bernard Shaw

  Silence, Conspiracy, Decency

  'Man and Superman' (1903) 'Maxims: Decency'

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• It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good . Guarantee a man's goodness and his liberty will take care of itself. To guarantee his freedom on condition that you approve of his moral character is formally to abolish all freedom whatsoever, as every man's liberty is at the mercy of a moral indictment which any fool can trump up against everyone who violates custom, whether as a prophet or as a rascal.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Character, Men, Liberty

  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.1375, e-artnow

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• We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Inspirational, Life, Happiness

  Candida (1898) act 1

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• There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be born again.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Victory, Belief, Rebirth

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• The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Knowledge, Fundamentals, Assumption

  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.1526, e-artnow

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• I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me to possess that assimilating capability to the changing phase of existence which can make itself appeal to every age... I have studied him - the wonderful man, and in my opinion far from being an Anti-Christ he must be called the Saviour of Humanity.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Islamic, Men, Humanity

  Interview (April 1935), as quoted in "The Genuine Islam", Vol. 1, January 1936.

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• My reputation grows with every failure.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Failure, Reputation, Learning From Failure

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