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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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To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.
Praise
Two peoples separated by a common language' - About the Americans and English
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Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.
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Under exciting circumstances, wealth cannot be enjoyed without dishonor, or foregone without misery.
Wealth
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
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Very few people can afford to be poor.
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Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place.
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Vice is waste of life. Poverty, obedience and celibacy are the canonical vices.
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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it
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Virtue is insufficient temptation.
Virtue
Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
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Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.
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We are a nation of governesses.
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We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins
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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
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We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners
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We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
Age
We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.
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We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.
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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
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