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The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me.

The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me.

George Bernard Shaw
Communication, Tailors, Sensible

Wicked people means people who have no love: therefore, they have no shame. They have the power to ask love because the don't need it: they have the power to offer it because they have none to give.

George Bernard Shaw
Mean, People, Giving
1895 March banks to Proserpine. Candida, act 2.

The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.

George Bernard Shaw
Men, Honor, Genius
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2540, e-artnow

The sex relation is not a personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure one another for a day in any other relation.

George Bernard Shaw
Sex, Endure, Relation
"Sixteen self sketches". Book by George Bernard Shaw, 1949.

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

George Bernard Shaw
America, Would Be, Asylums

Be as romantic as you please about love ... but you mustn't be romantic about money.

George Bernard Shaw
Please
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2006, e-artnow

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

George Bernard Shaw
Inspirational, Motivational, Success
"Appropriate Technology: A Focus for the Nineties". Book by Robert William Stevens, 1991.

The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.

George Bernard Shaw
Pygmalion, Soul, Good Man

Women are not angels. They are as foolish as men in many ways; but they have had to devote themselves to life whilst men have had to devote themselves to death; and that makes a vital difference in male and female religion. Women have been forced to fear whilst men have been forced to dare: the heroism of a woman is to nurse and protect life, and of a man to destroy it and court death.

George Bernard Shaw
Angel, Men, Differences
"The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism". Book by George Bernard Shaw (Chapter 82), 1928.

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

George Bernard Shaw
Courage, People, Lions

Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers.

George Bernard Shaw
Disease, Able, Treats
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.418, e-artnow

I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.

George Bernard Shaw
World, Gestures, Spontaneous

There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.

George Bernard Shaw
Music, Witty, Powerful

An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.

George Bernard Shaw
Patriotic, Fighting, Insulting
The Man of Destiny (1898)

All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness.

George Bernard Shaw
Ends, Graves, Gates
George Bernard Shaw (2016). “The Adventures Of Black Girl in Her Search for God”, p.8, George Bernard Shaw

Social progress takes effect through the replacement of all institutions by new ones; and since every institution involves the recognition of the duty of conforming to it, progress must involve the repudiation of an established duty at every step.

George Bernard Shaw
Progress, Steps, Recognition
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.17, e-artnow

A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.

George Bernard Shaw
Believe, Belief
George Bernard Shaw (2005). “Plays Unpleasant”, p.27, Penguin UK

Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.

George Bernard Shaw
Firsts, Wealth, Poor
"Major Barbara".

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

George Bernard Shaw
Inspirational, Funny, Play

Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.

George Bernard Shaw
Life, Women, Pygmalion
Pygmalion act 2 (1916)

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.

George Bernard Shaw
Inspirational, Life, True Joy
Man and Superman epistle dedicatory (1903)

Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.

George Bernard Shaw
Men, Emotional, Tea

It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.

George Bernard Shaw
Sarcastic, Sarcasm, Men
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2504, e-artnow

Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.

George Bernard Shaw
Strong, Mind, Reason
'Man and Superman' (1903) 'Maxims: Reason'

Whisky is liquid sunshine.

George Bernard Shaw
Sunshine, Liquid, Whiskey

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