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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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What I say today everybody will say tomorrow, though they will not remember who put it into their heads. Indeed they will be right for I never remember who puts things into my head : it is the Zeitgeist.
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What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game.... There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.
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What is the most precious, the most exciting smell awaiting you in the house when you return to it after a dozen years or so? The smell of roses, you think? No, moldering books.
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What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?
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What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?
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What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say "I know" instead of "I am learning," and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.
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What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say ''I know'' instead of ''I am learning,'' and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.
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What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering
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What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it
Originality
What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead
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What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
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What we want to see is the child in pursuit of knowledge and not knowledge in pursuit of the child
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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.
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When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity
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When a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity. The distinction between crime and justice is no greater.
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When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it's called ferocity.
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When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner.
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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty
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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he will always declare that it is his duty.
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