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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

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

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

All dress is fancy dress, is ...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

It is the inefficiency and sh...

It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of drifting down the midstream of mere ignorance.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

What is any respectable girl ...

What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man's fancy and get the benefit of his money by marrying him?--as if a marriage ceremony could make any difference in the right or wrong of the thing!

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Oh, the frontier of hell and ...

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

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

You don't expect me to know w...

You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? . . . If it's by a good author, it's a good play, naturally. That stands to reason.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Not until he acquires Europea...

Not until he acquires European manners does the American anarchist become the gentleman who assures you that people cannot be mademoral by Act of Parliament (the truth being that it is only by Acts of Parliament that men in large communities can be made moral, even when they want to).

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

If you leave your art, the wo...

If you leave your art, the world will beat you back to it. The world has not an ambition worth sharing, or a prize worth handling.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

To a professional critic (I h...

To a professional critic (I have been one myself) theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is paid to endure in the sweat of his brow; and the sooner it is over, the better.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

I can't control what life did...

I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

I'm one of the undeserving po...

I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's up agen middle class morality all the time.... What is middle class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything.

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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