George Bernard Shaw Quotes (221 quotes)

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„If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.“
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„General consultant to mankind.“
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„Virtue is insufficient temptation.“
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„There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.“
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„Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.“
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„A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.“
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„The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.“
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„What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?“
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„The love of economy is the root of all virtue.“
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„An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.“
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„The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.“
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„A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.“
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„Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.“
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„Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.“
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„Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.“
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„The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.“
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„Very few people can afford to be poor.“
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„It is most unwise for people in love to marry.“
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„Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.“
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„We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.“

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Author information

George Bernard Shaw
Author born: July 26, 1856
Author died: November 02, 1950
Nationality: Irish
Author Profession: Dramatist

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