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I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

George Bernard Shaw
Appreciation, Land, Usual
George Bernard Shaw (1977). “The Portable Bernard Shaw”, Viking Adult

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

George Bernard Shaw
Funny, Half, Neighbor

It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.

George Bernard Shaw
Style, Force, Handel

Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.

George Bernard Shaw
Drug, Holmes, Amiable

Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.

George Bernard Shaw
Government, Insulting, Public Opinion
'Man and Superman' (1903) act 3

It is quite useless to declare that all men are born free if you deny that they are born good . Guarantee a man's goodness and his liberty will take care of itself. To guarantee his freedom on condition that you approve of his moral character is formally to abolish all freedom whatsoever, as every man's liberty is at the mercy of a moral indictment which any fool can trump up against everyone who violates custom, whether as a prophet or as a rascal.

George Bernard Shaw
Character, Men, Liberty
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.1375, e-artnow

Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.

George Bernard Shaw
Inspirational, Life, Art
George Bernard Shaw (1988). “Collected letters: 1926-1950”, Vintage

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

George Bernard Shaw
Hands, Miracle, Surround
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.2302, e-artnow

When men die of disease they are said to die from natural causes. When they recover (and mostly they do) the doctor gets the credit of curing them.

George Bernard Shaw
Men, Doctors, Credit
From his Preface on Doctors published with The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

George Bernard Shaw
Life, Vices, Virtue
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.4489, e-artnow

When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.

George Bernard Shaw
Family, Home, Thinking
George Bernard Shaw (2004). “Heartbreak House”, p.63, 1st World Publishing

Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.

George Bernard Shaw
Bible, Pygmalion, Native Language
George Bernard Shaw (2016). “Pygmalion”, p.16, Xist Publishing

NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.

George Bernard Shaw
Funny, Humor, Soldier

What is self-control? It is nothing but a highly developed vital sense, dominating and regulating the mere appetites. To overlook the very existence of this supreme sense; to miss the obvious inference that it is the quality that distinguishes the fittest to survive.

George Bernard Shaw
Self, Self Control, Quality
"The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929".

The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!

George Bernard Shaw
Life, Time, Pain

A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future.

George Bernard Shaw
Past, Men, Married

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

George Bernard Shaw
Government, Hands, Political

The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.

George Bernard Shaw
Education, Science, Men
George Bernard Shaw (2010). “Back to Methuselah”, p.11, The Floating Press

Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.

George Bernard Shaw
Dying, Live For Today, Merit
George Bernard Shaw (2004). “Heartbreak House”, p.15, 1st World Publishing

New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

George Bernard Shaw
Truth, Political, Politics

Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.

George Bernard Shaw
Food, Disease, Vegetarian

Patriotism is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

George Bernard Shaw
Robbery

All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw
Change, Success, Creativity
Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903) See Hawthorne 18

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

George Bernard Shaw
Inspirational, Funny, Travel
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.1013, e-artnow

Most of the money given by rich people in "charity" is made up of conscience money, "ransom," political bribery, and bids for titles.... One buys moral credit by signing a cheque, which is easier than turning a prayer wheel.

George Bernard Shaw
Prayer, People, Political

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