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In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

George Bernard Shaw
Struggle, Ambition, Novices

A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often found that he is absentminded andobserves much less than other people.... Why is it that the public have such an exaggerated respect for him--after he is dead? The reason is that the man of genius understands the importance of the few things he sees.

George Bernard Shaw
Men, People, Genius

It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves; for the orator of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will.

George Bernard Shaw
Honesty, Government, People

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

George Bernard Shaw
Love, Funny, Break Up

All great art and literature is propaganda.

George Bernard Shaw
Art, Literature, Propaganda
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.3652, e-artnow

Youth is just wasted on young people.

George Bernard Shaw
People, Youth, Young

A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.

George Bernard Shaw
Wisdom, Men, Gains

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

George Bernard Shaw
Happiness, Happy, Health
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.804, e-artnow

A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

George Bernard Shaw
Funny, Happiness, Laughter
Man and Superman act 1 (1903)

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

George Bernard Shaw
Life, Success, Beauty
Major Barbara (1907) preface

Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.

George Bernard Shaw
Biblical, Temptation, Prove
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.304, e-artnow

Liberty is the breath of life to nations.

George Bernard Shaw
4th Of July, Liberty, Happy Independence Day
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.2941, e-artnow

I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum

George Bernard Shaw
Moon, Men, Lunatic Asylums

At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.

George Bernard Shaw
Religion, Atheism, World
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.2276, e-artnow

All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!

George Bernard Shaw
Mistake, Struggle, Trying

The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.

George Bernard Shaw
Real, Goal, Life Is

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

George Bernard Shaw
Inspirational, Wise, Wisdom
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.314, e-artnow

England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

George Bernard Shaw
Country, Two, America

All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.

George Bernard Shaw
Mind, Half, Disease
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.4586, e-artnow

Seemingly unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. Much progress, therefore, depends on such people.

George Bernard Shaw
People, Progress, World

The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.

George Bernard Shaw
Christian, Believe, Religion
Getting Married (1911)

Revelations: A curious record of the visions of a drug addict.

George Bernard Shaw
Drug, Vision, Records

There is a disease to which plays as well as men become liable with advancing years. In men it is called doting, in plays dating.The more topical the play the more it dates.

George Bernard Shaw
Men, Years, Play

The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.

George Bernard Shaw
Photography, Clothes, Cameras

Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

George Bernard Shaw
Sarcastic, Science, Creating
"Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms".

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