George Bernard Shaw

(124 votes)   I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(124 votes)   In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(123 votes)   My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(123 votes)   When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(122 votes)   Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.

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1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(122 votes)   If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(122 votes)   The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(119 votes)   I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

George Bernard Shaw
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(119 votes)   It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(119 votes)   Science is always wrong, it never solves a problem without creating ten more.

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1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(119 votes)   The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

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1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(116 votes)   The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(115 votes)   A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

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1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(114 votes)   Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?

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1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(112 votes)   I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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