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An author who gives a manager ...

An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Well, upon my soul! You are no...

Well, upon my soul! You are not ashamed to stand there and confess yourself a disgusting drunkard.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Your heart and your mouth wil ...

Your heart and your mouth wil be in two separate parts of your body if you again forget in whose presence you stand.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

You must all know half a dozen...

You must all know half a dozen people at least who are no use in this world, who are more trouble than they are worth. Just put them there and say Sir, or Madam, now will you be kind enough to justify your existence? If you can't justify your existence, if you're not pulling your weight in the social boat, if you're not producing as much as you consume or perhaps a little more, then, clearly, we cannot use the organizations of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us and i

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

The universal regard for money...

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

I hate the poor and look forwa...

I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Two people getting together to...

Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is superfluous.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

It would positively be a relie...

It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

I don't know what to say about...

I don't know what to say about this book. The experience on which it is founded is so extraordinary, that an honest record of it should be preserved . . . But it would have driven me mad; and I am not sure that the author came out of it without a slight derangement.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

It is the highest creatures wh...

It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Write your Sad times in Sand,<...

Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

The difference between a lady ...

The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she's treated.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

The great secret, Eliza, is no...

The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no thirdclass carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

No use slaving for me and then...

No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you'll get nothing else.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Would the world ever have been...

Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There's only one way of escaping trouble; and that's killing things.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

But to admire a strong person ...

But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person's thumb are two different things.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

What is life but a series of i...

What is life but a series of inspired follies...

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Like all young men, you greatl...

Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

The play was a great success, ...

The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Shall I turn up the light for ...

Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

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