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There is nothing on earth mor...

There is nothing on earth more exquisite than a bonny book, with well-placed columns of rich black writing in beautiful borders, and illuminated pictures cunningly inset. But nowadays, instead of looking at books, people read them. A book might as well be one of those orders for bacon and bran.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Poverty blights whole cities;...

Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

The public want actresses, be...

The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

We are not taught to think de...

We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

I shall always be a flower gi...

I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me as a lady, and always will.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

If the lesser mind could meas...

If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Laws, religions, creeds, and ...

Laws, religions, creeds, and systems of ethics, instead of making society better than its best unit, make it worse than its average unit, because they are never up to date.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

They tell me that So-and-So, ...

They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Deep knowledge is not knowled...

Deep knowledge is not knowledge of the thing itself, but knowledge of a thing like the thing. Then, you gain not one knowledge, but two knowledges. Of the thing. And of the original thing with is like the thing. Which is the barbarism of the privileged class.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Never believe anything a writ...

Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

I find that socialism is ofte...

I find that socialism is often misunderstood by its least intelligent supporters and opponents to mean simply unrestrained indulgence of our natural propensity to heave bricks at respectable persons.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

When a bishop at the first sh...

When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically... but that does not justify him in pretending...that Christ is, in effect, Mars.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Make me a beautiful word for ...

Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

A moderately honest man with ...

A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Nobody can say a word against...

Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Those who understand the stea...

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Effectiveness of assertion is...

Effectiveness of assertion is the alpha and omega of style.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

The greatest evils and the wo...

The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

The pianoforte is the most im...

The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

What is really important in M...

What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are not even conscious, just as we are not normally conscious of keeping up our circulation by our heart-pump, though if we neglect it we die.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

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