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What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

George Bernard Shaw (2016). “The Critical Shaw: On Literature”, p.157, RosettaBooks

You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.4120, e-artnow

Science is always simple and always profound. It is only the half-truths that are dangerous.

George Bernard Shaw (2011). “The Doctor's Dilemma”, p.30, The Floating Press

Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.

George Bernard Shaw (1993). “The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929”, Viking Adult

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

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.317, e-artnow

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...

"Music in London, 1890-94: Criticisms Contributed Week by Week to The World, Volume 27 (The World (18 July 1894))". Book by George Bernard Shaw, 1931.

And so, to the end of history, murder shall breed murder, always in the name of right and honor and peace, until the gods are tired of blood and create a race that can understand.

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.916, e-artnow

I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian.

"Who I Am, and What I Think". Interview in Frank Harris's periodical "The Candid Friend" (May 1901), later quoted in George Bernard Shaw "Sixteen Self Sketches" (p. 53), 1949, and in Desmond King-Hele, "Shelley: His Thought and Work" (p. 42), 1984.

A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.

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.1660, e-artnow