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If I were a woman, I'd simply...

If I were a woman, I'd simply refuse to speak to any man or do anything for men until I'd got the vote.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Creation is a miracle of dail...

Creation is a miracle of daily recurrence. 'A miracle a minute' would not be a bad slogan for God.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

I want to destroy ownership i...

I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

The heretic is always better ...

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

A statesman who confines hims...

A statesman who confines himself to popular legislation - or, for the matter of that, a playwright who confines himself to popular plays - is like a blind man's dog who goes wherever the blind man pulls him, on the ground that both of them want to go to the same place.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Caesar was a man of great com...

Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

If a woman can, by careful se...

If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

My method of getting a play a...

My method of getting a play across the footlights is like a revolver shooting: every line has a bullet in it and comes with an explosion.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Socialism never arises in the...

Socialism never arises in the earlier phases of capitalism, as, for instance, among the pioneers of civilisation in a country where there is plenty of land available for private appropriation by the last comer.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

I want to be thoroughly used ...

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

If you must hold yourself up ...

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

What is the use of writing pl...

What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

We are the only real aristocr...

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Martyrdom: The only way a man...

Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Men are wise in proportion, n...

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

An index is a great leveller....

An index is a great leveller.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Few of us have vitality enoug...

Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Find enough clever things to ...

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

While we ourselves are the li...

While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

The frontier between hell and...

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

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