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I do not waste my time writin...

I do not waste my time writing pot-boilers: the pot must be boiled, and even my pot au feu has some chunks of fresh meat in it. ...I have no time to boil myself down; and anyhow I could not do so and preserve all the necessary nutriment and the flavoring on which the digestibility depends.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

I am highly susceptible to th...

I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Make it compulsory for a doct...

Make it compulsory for a doctor using a brass plate to have inscribed on it, in addition to the letters indicating his qualifications, the words 'Remember that I too am mortal'.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Get married, but never to a m...

Get married, but never to a man who is home all day.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Unless the law of marriage we...

Unless the law of marriage were first made human, it could never become divine.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Blasphemy and sedition (meani...

Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Your wits can't thicken in th...

Your wits can't thicken in that soft moist air, on those white springy roads, in those misty rushes and brown bogs, on those hillsides of granite rocks and magenta heather. You've no such colours in the sky, no such lure in the distances, no such sadness in the evenings. Oh the dreaming! the dreaming! the torturing, heart-scalding, never satisfying dreaming, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming!

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

You are all alike, you respec...

You are all alike, you respectable people. You can't tell me the bursting strain of a ten-inch gun, which is a very simple matter;but you all think you can tell me the bursting strain of a man under temptation. You daren't handle high explosives; but you're all ready to handle honesty and truth and justice and the whole duty of man, and kill one another at that game. What a country! What a world!

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

You sometimes have to answer ...

You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

To withhold deserved praise l...

To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Even under the most perfect S...

Even under the most perfect Social Democracy we should, without Communism, still be living like hogs, except that each hog would get his fair share of grub.... Whilst we are hogs, let us at least be well-fed, healthy, reciprocally useful hogs, instead of--well, instead of the sort we are at present.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

As people get their opinions ...

As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read, the corruption of the schools would not matter so much if the Press were free. But the Press is not free. As it costs at least a quarter of a million of money to establish a daily newspaper in London, the newspapers are owned by rich men. And they depend on the advertisements of other rich men. Editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Instead of Otello being an It...

Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the style of Italian opera.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Sister, you're trying to keep...

Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

All classes in proportion to ...

All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport - in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

All dress is fancy dress, is ...

All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins?

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Whenever I see the word Opera...

Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

You can be a thorough-going N...

You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

If you do not write for publi...

If you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Every dream is a prophecy: ev...

Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

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