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If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Father
#Good
#Reward
#Service
#Woman
Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Dying
#Know
#Live
#Merit
#Must
Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Go
#Me
#Nice
#Say
#Will
If I were a woman, I'd simply refuse to speak to any man or do anything for men until I'd got the vote.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Man
#Men
#Speak
#Vote
#Woman
I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Community
#Order
#Ownership
#Point
#Want
What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Anything
#Chaos
#Finally
#Race
#Will
The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Anything
#Soldier
#Stand Up
#Stand
#War
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Enough
#Facilities
#Good
#Marriage
#Us
The only fundamental and possible socialism is the socialisation of the selective breeding of man.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Breeding
#Man
#Only
#Possible
#Socialism
Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Enough
#Instincts
#Make
#Our
#Us
Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Door
#Fire
#Gallery
#Painting
#Would
Creation is a miracle of daily recurrence. 'A miracle a minute' would not be a bad slogan for God.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Bad
#Creation
#Daily
#God
#Miracle
My method of getting a play across the footlights is like a revolver shooting: every line has a bullet in it and comes with an explosion.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Explosion
#Like
#Line
#Play
#Shooting
I have a strong feeling that I shall be glad when I am dead and done for - scrapped at last to make room for somebody better, cleverer, more perfect than myself.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Better
#Dead
#I Am
#Myself
#Perfect
The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Always
#Better
#Cannot
#Dead
#Eyes
Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Clever
#Down
#Enough
#Find
#Things
Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Cruelty
#Delicious
#Find
#Hurt
#Only
We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Aristocracy
#Money
#Only
#Real
#World
A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
- George Bernard Shaw
#He
#Never
#Think
#Time
#Twice
General consultant to mankind.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Consultant
#General
#Mankind
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Consists
#Desiring
#Vice
#Virtue
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Beauty
#Humanity
#Knowledge
#Love
#Truth
Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Common Sense
#Courage
#Good
#Great
#Man
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Keep
#Mean
#Men
#Things
#Up
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Country
#Family
#Service
#Social
#Up
Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there is plenty of land available for private appropriation by the last comer.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Capitalism
#Country
#Never
#Socialism
If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Corner
#Moment
#Opinions
#People
#Will
There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Hanging
#Man
#Object
#Satisfaction
#Who
A statesman who confines himself to popular legislation - or, for the matter of that, a playwright who confines himself to popular plays - is like a blind man's dog who goes wherever the blind man pulls him, on the ground that both of them want to go to the same place.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Blind
#Dog
#Man
#Matter
#Place
A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Care
#don't Care
#Go
#He
#Man
Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Desire
#Man
#Me
#Why
#World
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
#Battle
#Fight
#Hot
#Knowledge
#Lose
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Dangerous
#Marriage
#More
#Nonsense
What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?
- George Bernard Shaw
#Married
#Trade
#Unionism
#Virtue
An index is a great leveller.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Great
It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Dead
#Good
#Man
#Picture
#Replace
We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.
- George Bernard Shaw
#About
#Always
#Said
#Things
#Think
The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider!
- George Bernard Shaw
#Big
#Future
#Imagine
#Me
#Personality
The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Affection
#Animal
#Human
#Natural
#Years
The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Body
#Church
#God
#Old
#Person
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
- George Bernard Shaw
#He
#Moral
#Only
#Thinks
#Uncomfortable
Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Action
#Clear
#Men
#Mercy
#Social
All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Affection
#Life
#Me
#My Life
#Step
I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Courage
#Lion
#Never
#People
#Safe
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Believing
#Gentleman
#He
#Mad
#Reading
It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Earnestly
#Hard
#Know
#Right
#Wishes
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Breath
#First
#Man
#Nature
#Tree
#Well
While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?
- George Bernard Shaw
#Animals
#Earth
#Expect
#Ideal
#Living
The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Energy
#Enough
#Honor
#Point
#Truth
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Belief
#Capitalism
#Force
#Power
#Self
Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Mistakes
#Necessities
#Political
#Turn
Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Doing
#May
#Nothing
#Serious
#Worth
A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Broken
#Comfortable
#He
#Heart
#Man
A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Anything
#Contradict
#Man
#Never
#Until
The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Art
#Government
#Idolatry
#Organisation
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Life
#Tolerable
#Would
Virtue is insufficient temptation.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Insufficient
#Temptation
#Virtue
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Dangerous
#Hold
#Learning
#Little
#Must
#Take
Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Every
#Mastered
#Person
#Profession
#Who
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Definition
#Good
#Hell
#Holiday
#Working
In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Afraid
#Always
#Danger
#Who
#World
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Conversation
#Power
#Speech
#Trouble
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Fear
#Life
#Live
#Poverty
#Reward
Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Done
#Men
#Nothing
#Until
#World
Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Cannot
#Climb
#Dwell
#Long
#Man
All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Genuinely
#Humorous
#Intellectual
#Work
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Assumptions
#Creed
#He
#Man
#Which
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Marriage
#Opportunity
#Temptation
I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Bad
#Me
#Never
#Temptation
#Things
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Children
#Lesson
#Up
#Your
#Yourself
If I own a large part of Scotland, I can turn the people off the land practically into the sea or across the sea. I can take women in child-bearing and throw them into the snow and leave them there. That has been done. I can do it for no better reason than I think it is better to shoot deer on the land than allow people to live on it.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Better
#Live
#People
#Sea
#Women
Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Failure
#Never
#Only
#Son
#Will
What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
- George Bernard Shaw
#Car
#Long
#Mind
#Politics
#Will
The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Difference
#Heaven
#Hell
#Looking
#Two
I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Intelligence
#Like
#Seriously
#Take
#You
#Your
The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Behave
#Man
#Quarrel
#Test
#Woman
I want to be all used up when I die.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Die
#Up
#Used
#Want
If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Better
#Halves
#Injure
#Neighbour
#Your
Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Afraid
#Animals
#Human
#I Am
#Only
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Affair
#Love
#Perfect
#Post
#Which
The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Burglar
#Faults
#Financier
#Qualities
If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Anything
#Nothing
#Us
#World
#Wrong
In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Capitalism
#Free
#Selfish
#Socialism
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Best
#Children
#Honesty
#I Am
#World
The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Happy
#Man
#Mistake
#Rich
#Sound
Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Forever
#Live
#Succeed
#Try
#Will
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
- George Bernard Shaw
#People
#Sacrifice
#Self-Sacrifice
#Us
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Choose
#Men
#Own
#Silence
#Virtues
The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Business
#Know
#People
#Things
#Want
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Curiosity
#First
#Little
#Love Is
#Love
#Only
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Capacity
#Experience
#Men
#Wise
I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Live
#Morality
#Myself
#Others
Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Ability
#Famous
#Man
#Only
#Way
#Without
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Assassination
#Censorship
#Extreme
#Form
When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Anything
#Got
#He
#Man
#Money
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Love
#Marry
#Most
#People
#Unwise
She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Art
#Conversation
#Lost
#Power
#Speech
An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
- George Bernard Shaw
#America
#Asylum
#Empty
#Sane
#Would
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Avoid
#Happy
#Leisure
#Way
#Wonder
Most people do not pray; they only beg.
- George Bernard Shaw
#Beg
#Most
#Only
#People
#Pray
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