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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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Alcohol is a very necessary article . . . It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.
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Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
Alcohol
All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships.
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All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.
Evolution
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
Truth
All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it
AffectionLife
All problems are finally scientific problems.
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All professions are conspiracies against the laity
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All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions.
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All progress means war with society.
Progress
All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them
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All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of story-tellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.
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Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes
Judgement
Always let your flattery be seen through for what really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering
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Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend-if you have one.
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Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
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An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
America and Americans
An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
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An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only comfortable
Morality
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
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