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Quotations by author » George Bernard Shaw
Irish literary Critic, Playwright and Essayist. 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1856-1950
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Indifference is the essence of inhumanity".
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It does not follow . . . that the right to criticize Shakespeare involves the power of writing better plays. And in fact . . . I do not profess to write better plays.
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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
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It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls.
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It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as possible
Men and Women
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
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It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.
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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.
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It is fortunate to come of distinguished ancestry. - It is not less so to be such that people do not care to inquire whether you are of high descent or not.
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It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made
Life
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
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It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief
Belief
It is only natural that a man should have established friendly relationship with the wives of his friends, but if he is wise he quits all ideas of sex out of the question.
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It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.
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It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
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It is the sexless novel that should be distinguished: the sex novel is now normal.
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It shows how dangerous it is to be too good
Goodness
It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public.
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It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.
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It would positively be a relief to me to dig him [Shakespeare] up and throw stones at him.
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