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Nobel Prize money is a life-be...

Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Build a system that even a foo...

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

I believe in Michelangelo, Vel...

I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

If the announcer can produce t...

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Poverty does not produce unhap...

Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

I have very carefully studied ...

I have very carefully studied Islam and the life of its Prophet (PBUH). I have done so both as a student of history and as a critic. And I have come to conclusion that Muhammad (PBUH) was indeed a great man and a deliverer and benefactor of mankind which was till then writhing under the most agonising Pain.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

All censorships exist to preve...

All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

While browsing in a second-han...

While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: 'To ----, with esteem, George Bernard Shaw.' He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: 'With renewed esteem, George Bernard Shaw.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Liquor is the chloroform which...

Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

I knew if I waited around long...

I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

For four wicked centuries the ...

For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

It's all that the young can do...

It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

When the horrors of anarchy fo...

When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport, we still snatch at every excuse for declaring individuals outside the protection of law and torturing them to our hearts content.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

You have to choose between tru...

You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And, with due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

It is said that every people h...

It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves; for the orator of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Ladies and gentleman are permi...

Ladies and gentleman are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Truth telling is not compatibl...

Truth telling is not compatible with the defence of the realm.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

People get nothing out of book...

People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

The happiness of credulity is ...

The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Titles distinguish the mediocr...

Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

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