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George Bernard Shaw Inspirational Quotes (770)

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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
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My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.
George Bernard Shaw
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Every profession is a conspiracy against the laity.
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He who bears the brand of Cain shall rule the earth.
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All progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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I lay my eternal curse on whomsoever shall now or at any time hereafter make schoolbooks of my works and make me hated as Shakespeare is hated. My plays were not designed as instruments of torture. All the schools that lust after them get this answer, and will never get any other.
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Every man to whom salvation is offered has an inalienable natural right to say 'No, thank you: I prefer to retain my full moral responsibility: it is not good for me to be able to load a scapegoat with my sins: I should be less careful how I committed them if I knew they would cost me nothing.
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If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.
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If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.
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Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours it wanders wherever your children do
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What a heartbreaking job it is trying to combine authors for their own protection... the first lesson I learned was that when you take the field for the authors you will be safer without a breastplate than without a backplate.
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Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them. They cannot pretend they have won when they have lost nor that they had a magnificent drive when they foozled it. The Englishman is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.
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Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.
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Some persons, by hating vice too much, come to love men too little. Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred is the cowards revenge for being intimidated.
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If you cannot have what you believe in you must believe in what you have.
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We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts.
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Fashions are induced epidemics.
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O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.
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This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap-heap the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.
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If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion
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It's usually pointed out that women are not fit for political power, and ought not to be trusted with a vote because they are politically ignorant, socially prejudiced, narrow-minded, and selfish. True enough, but precisely the same is true of men!
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Morals are a luxury of the rich.
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Morality is not respectability.
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Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus.
George Bernard Shaw
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