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You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.

You have a choice of trusting the natural stability of gold, or the honesty and intelligence of members of government.

George Bernard Shaw
Honesty, Government, Choices

They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.

George Bernard Shaw
Writing, Brass Bands, Doe
George Bernard Shaw (2006). “Three Plays for Puritans”, p.36, Penguin UK

God help England if she had no Scots to think for her.

George Bernard Shaw
Thinking, Scotland, England
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.3448, e-artnow

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

George Bernard Shaw
Evil, Forgiving, Form
George Bernard Shaw (2008). “Pygmalion and Major Barbara”, p.10, Bantam Classics

The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.

George Bernard Shaw
True Or False, Belief, Stability

Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation.

George Bernard Shaw
Mean, Imagination, Creation
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.2919, e-artnow

The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident.

George Bernard Shaw
Truth, Knowledge, Media

Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural.

George Bernard Shaw
Children, Selfish, Knowing
George Bernard Shaw (2004). “A Treatise on Parents and Children”, p.31, 1st World Publishing

What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?.

George Bernard Shaw
Funny, Sarcastic, Sarcasm
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.776, e-artnow

As 99 per cent of English authors and 100 per cent of American ones [authors] are just such imbeciles, managers and publishers make a practice of asking for every right the author possesses.

George Bernard Shaw
Practice, Asking, Imbeciles

When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore.

George Bernard Shaw
Thinking, Lions, Lasts
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

If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them.

George Bernard Shaw
Fear, People, Doe

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

George Bernard Shaw
Photography, Maturity, Order

What is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

George Bernard Shaw
Matter, Rich Poor, Riches And Poors
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.316, e-artnow

The utmost I can bear for myself in my best days is that I was one of the hundred best playwrights in the world, which is hardly a supreme distinction.

George Bernard Shaw
World, Bears, Hundred

The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.

George Bernard Shaw
Thinking, Want, Actresses
"Love Among the Artists". Book by George Bernard Shaw, 1900.

How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?

George Bernard Shaw
Book, Reading, Men

To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to a host, to break the covenant of bread and salt, is impossible.

George Bernard Shaw
Covenant, Salt, Bread
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.1826, e-artnow

Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord.

George Bernard Shaw
Doctors, Poor, Employers
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.2455, e-artnow

Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.

George Bernard Shaw
Suicide, People, Criticism

I lay my eternal curse on whomsoever shall now or at any time hereafter make schoolbooks of my works and make me hated as Shakespeare is hated. My plays were not designed as instruments of torture. All the schools that lust after them get this answer, and will never get any other.

George Bernard Shaw
Book, School, Play

If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor.... Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor!

George Bernard Shaw
Blessed, Men, Poor
George Bernard Shaw (2008). “Pygmalion and Major Barbara”, p.12, Bantam Classics

For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window.

George Bernard Shaw
Book, Years, Twenties

You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my transfiguration and purification. You are my rapscallionly fellow vagabond, my tempter and star. I want you.

George Bernard Shaw
Relationship, Soulmate, Stars

Every man to whom salvation is offered has an inalienable natural right to say 'No, thank you: I prefer to retain my full moral responsibility: it is not good for me to be able to load a scapegoat with my sins: I should be less careful how I committed them if I knew they would cost me nothing.

George Bernard Shaw
Responsibility, Men, Cost
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.3238, e-artnow

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