George Bernard Shaw Quotes - Page 36

• How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

  George Bernard Shaw

  Book, Reading, Men

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• To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to a host, to break the covenant of bread and salt, is impossible.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Covenant, Salt, Bread

  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.1826, e-artnow

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• Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Doctors, Poor, Employers

  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.2455, e-artnow

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• For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Book, Years, Twenties

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• The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Eye, Saint, Heretic

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.3320, e-artnow

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• I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a wasteful, disastrous subject; a wicked, cadging, lying, filthy, blasphemous and demoralizing subject. Christmas is forced on a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press: on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred; and anyone who looked back to it would be turned into a pillar of greasy sausages.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sorry, Lying, Hatred

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• I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler; I don't like beer.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Drinking, Wine, Beer

  Candida (1898) act 3

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• Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him away.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Doctors, Giving, Etiquette

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• I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in less time that it takes me to buy a German Dictionary

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sorry, Men, Ordinary

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• Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Education, Teacher, Father

  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.5797, e-artnow

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• In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Order

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• Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

  George Bernard Shaw

  Love, Life, Sex

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• The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Sex, Moral, Abandoned

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• A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Broken Heart, Heartbreak, Men

  George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy”, p.237, The Floating Press

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• Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited love. These are services which the weak cannot render to the strong and which the strong will not render to the weak, except when there is also a difference of sex.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Girl, Strong, Sex

  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.287, e-artnow

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• My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Switzerland, Citizens, Known

  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.466, e-artnow

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• There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Life, Success, Nature

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.3646, e-artnow

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• It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Maturity, Mature, Creatures

  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.3909, e-artnow

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• What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Imagine

  George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Pygmalion”, p.133, Simon and Schuster

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• What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Character, Men, Thinking

  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.341, e-artnow

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• Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Age, Twenties

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• All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be seduced from their pursuit of profits to the enchantments of art, they would be bankrupt before they knew where they were. You cannot combine the pursuit of money with the pursuit of art.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Movie, Art, People

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• Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing self-sacrifice on a woman under the pretense that she likes it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Mean, Sacrifice, Self

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• Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.

  George Bernard Shaw

  People, Facts, England

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• Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Capacity, Faculty, Potency

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