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How you ought properly to spell 'fish' in English: 'goti' .

How you ought properly to spell 'fish' in English: 'goti' .

George Bernard Shaw
Fishes, Ought, Spells

The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.

George Bernard Shaw
Inspirational, Doe, Demand

Defeatism is the wretchedest of policies.

George Bernard Shaw
Policy

I never accepted a knighthood because to me, is honour enough?

George Bernard Shaw
Knighthood, Enough, Accepted

The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.

George Bernard Shaw
Men, Righteous Man, Hands
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.5116, e-artnow

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

George Bernard Shaw
Keeping Secrets, Secret

Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?

George Bernard Shaw
Passion, Evil, Tunes
Nelly Sachs, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme (1971). “Nelly Sachs, Jean-Paul Sartre, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme”

The criminal law is no use to decent people.

George Bernard Shaw
Law, People, Criminals
1906 Sir Patrick.The Doctor's Dilemma, act 3.

A great social reformer.

George Bernard Shaw
Moral, Manners, Social

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

George Bernard Shaw
Wish, Morality, Knows
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.1971, e-artnow

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

George Bernard Shaw
Thinking, Morality, Uncomfortable
Man and Superman act 3 (1903)

The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

George Bernard Shaw
Art, Government, Idolatry
Man and Superman (1903) "Maxims for Revolutionists: Idolatry"

A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.

George Bernard Shaw
Men, Office, Trials
The Irrational Knot (1905) ch. 18

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.

George Bernard Shaw
Animal, Years, Six
George Bernard Shaw (2004). “Heartbreak House”, p.59, 1st World Publishing

A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith.

George Bernard Shaw
Miracle, Events, My Friends
Saint Joan (1924) sc. 2

It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls.

George Bernard Shaw
Sports, Sarcastic, Past

Golf is typical capitalist luncay.

George Bernard Shaw
Golf, Typical, Capitalist

Who are those we love? Only those we do not hate.

George Bernard Shaw
Hate, Emotional, Feelings

My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.

George Bernard Shaw
Friendship, Men, World
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.1796, e-artnow

A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows.

George Bernard Shaw
Children, Real, Nurse

Any belief worth having must survive doubt

George Bernard Shaw
Doubt, Belief

Every profession is a conspiracy against the laity.

George Bernard Shaw
Conspiracy, Profession

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

George Bernard Shaw
Hero, Coward, Heroism
"John Bull's Other Island". Book by George Bernard Shaw (Preface), November 1, 1904.

Those who won't hesitate to vivisect, won't hesitate to lie about it as well.

George Bernard Shaw
Lying, Wells

The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.

George Bernard Shaw
Men, Thinking, 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.2608, e-artnow

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