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It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

George Bernard Shaw
Hate, Pygmalion, Mouths
Pygmalion (1916) preface

Every Englishman believes that Handel now occupies an important position in heaven. If so, le bon Dieu must feel toward him very much as Louis Treize felt toward Richelieu.

George Bernard Shaw
Believe, Heaven, Important
Ainslee's Magazine, May, 1913.

Fear is choosing the safe course

George Bernard Shaw
Safe, Courses

Man is unique in that he has plans, purpose and goals which require the need for criteria of choice. The need for ethical value is within man whose future may largely be determined by the choice he make

George Bernard Shaw
Unique, Men, Goal

Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.

George Bernard Shaw
Taxation, World, Chiefs
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.1743, e-artnow

If you would stick to the concrete, and put your discoveries in the form of entertaining anecdotes about your adventures with women, your conversation would be easier to follow.

George Bernard Shaw
Adventure, Discovery, Anecdotes
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.1165, e-artnow

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

George Bernard Shaw
Joy, Purpose, Want

He who has never hoped can never despair

George Bernard Shaw
Inspirational, Hope, Expectations
Caesar and Cleopatra (1901) act 4

He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it.

George Bernard Shaw
Beautiful, Women, Wine
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.5803, e-artnow

All progress is due to the unreasonable person.

George Bernard Shaw
Progress, Unreasonable, Persons

The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in which everyone is married in the last act.

George Bernard Shaw
Drama, Light, Tragedy

I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.

George Bernard Shaw
Soul, Looks, Lasts

Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.

George Bernard Shaw
Character, Animal, Evil

I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

George Bernard Shaw
Get Well Soon, Health, Sickness
Back to Methuselah Pt II

In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god : everybody worships him and nobody does his will.

George Bernard Shaw
Stupid, Men, Doe
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.311, e-artnow

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.

George Bernard Shaw
Inspirational, Opportunity, Pygmalion
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.3355, e-artnow

We're human beings we are - all of us - and that's what people are liable to forget. Human beings don't like peace and goodwill and everybody loving everybody else. However much they may think they do, they don't really because they're not made like that. Human beings love eating and drinking and loving and hating. They also like showing off, grabbing all they can, fighting for their rights and bossing anybody who'll give them half a chance.

George Bernard Shaw
Hate, Drinking, Fighting

The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.

George Bernard Shaw
Money, Children, Men
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.1472, e-artnow

The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.

George Bernard Shaw
Wisdom, Hurt, Teeth
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.2776, e-artnow

The wheels are turning, but the hamsters are all dead. Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot. I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it.

George Bernard Shaw
Dirty, Long Ago, Pigs

Ladies and gentlemen are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.

George Bernard Shaw
Funny, Kitchen, Gentleman
"The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw".

The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large, but mostly one who, through ignorance or stupidity [or racism or poverty! - Draffan] steals in a way that is not customary. He snatches a loaf from the baker's counter and is promptly run into gaol. Another man snatches bread from the table of hundreds of widows and orphans and similar credulous souls who do not know the ways of company promoters; and, as likely as not, he is run into Parliament.

George Bernard Shaw
Running, Ignorance, Men

Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

George Bernard Shaw
Poverty, Modern, Sermon On The Mount

As you say, I am honoured and famous and rich. But as I have to do all the hard work, and suffer an increasing multitude of fools gladly, it does not feel any better than being reviled, infamous and poor, as I used to be.

George Bernard Shaw
Hard Work, Suffering, Doe

Those who are looking for paradise on Earth should come and see Dubrovnik.

George Bernard Shaw
Paradise On Earth, Earth, Paradise

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