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But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things.

But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things.

George Bernard Shaw
Strong, Two, Thumbs
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.3418, e-artnow

Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.

George Bernard Shaw
Doe, Degradation, Poverty

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

George Bernard Shaw
Life, Motivational, Friendship

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

George Bernard Shaw
Positive Thinking, Kwanzaa, True Joy

Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.

George Bernard Shaw
Peace, War, Animal Rights

It is very doubtful whether man is enough of a political animal to produce a good, sensible, serious and efficient constitution. All the evidence is against it.

George Bernard Shaw
Animal, Men, Political
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.6041, e-artnow

God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.

George Bernard Shaw
World, Paradise, Given
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.1384, e-artnow

A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having 'a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures.' Perhaps dread would have been nearer the mark than dislike; for man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

George Bernard Shaw
Animal, Men, Mark
"George Bernard Shaw, His Life and Works (Chapter VII: The Art Critic)". Book by Archibald Henderson (pp. 201-202), 1911.

As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish.

George Bernard Shaw
Drama, Long, People

An interesting play cannot in the nature of things mean anything but a play in which problems of conduct and character of personalimportance to the audience are raised and suggestively discussed.

George Bernard Shaw
Drama, Character, Mean

Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective.

George Bernard Shaw
Queens, Ignorant, Would Be

The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.

George Bernard Shaw
Truth, Light, Break Through
George Bernard Shaw (2011). “The Doctor's Dilemma”, p.137, The Floating Press

I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.

George Bernard Shaw
Ladders, Gravitation, Sheer
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.719, e-artnow

I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies.

George Bernard Shaw
Order, Ideas, Body

An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

George Bernard Shaw
Courage, Blood, Soul
George Bernard Shaw (2007). “Back to Methuselah”, p.176, 1st World Publishing

A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.

George Bernard Shaw
Mother, Art, Children
Man and Superman (1903) act 1

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

George Bernard Shaw
Inspirational, Motivational, Respect
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.2405, e-artnow

A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.

George Bernard Shaw
Learning, Men, Progress
George Bernard Shaw (1977). “The Portable Bernard Shaw”, Viking Adult

Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.

George Bernard Shaw
Funny, Crush, Humor
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.1040, e-artnow

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

George Bernard Shaw
Nice, Goes On, Adore

My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.

George Bernard Shaw
Education, Teaching, Learning

Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.

George Bernard Shaw
Animal, Vegetarianism, Abuse

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

George Bernard Shaw
Book, Beer, Self

We are the living graves of murdered beasts.

George Bernard Shaw
Animal, Vegetarian Diet, Vegetarianism

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

George Bernard Shaw
Fighting, Winning, Blood
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.2046, e-artnow

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