George Bernard Shaw quotes - page 12

People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them. (George Bernard Shaw)
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity. The distinction between Crime and Justice is no greater. View quote
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Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it... View quote
George Bernard Shaw
I have defined the 100 per cent American as 99 per cent an idiot. View quote
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The body was the slave of the vortex; but the slave has become the master; and we must free ourselves from that tyranny. It is this stuff [indicating her body], this flesh and blood and bone and all the rest of it, that is intolerable. Even prehistoric man dreamed of what he called an astral body, and asked who would deliver him from the body of this death. View quote
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Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in. View quote
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The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing. View quote
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I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
When will we realize that the fact that we can become accustomed to anything, however disgusting at first, makes it necessary to examine carefully everything we have become accustomed to. View quote
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In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god: everybody worships him and nobody does his will. View quote
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God help England if she had no Scots to think for her! (George Bernard Shaw)
A great devotee of the Gospel of Getting On. View quote
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There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates, who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors, have not been tortured, but ordered to kill themselves in the most painless manner known to their judges. But from that summit there was a speedy relapse into our present savagery. View quote
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The reformer for whom the world is not good enough finds himself shoulder to shoulder with him that is not good enough for the world. View quote
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Its all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date. View quote
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Don't think you can frighten me by telling me I am alone. France is alone and God is alone and what is my loneliness before the loneliness of my country and my God. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
You're not a man, youre a machine. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
That is what all poets do they talk to themselves out loud and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes. View quote
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A man learns to skate by staggering about making a fool of himself indeed, he progresses in all things by making a fool of himself. View quote
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Obscenity can be found in every book except the telephone directory. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads and keep them in bowls of water around the house. (George Bernard Shaw)
Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature. View quote
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If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion. View quote
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Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you. View quote
George Bernard Shaw