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Man is the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

Man is the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

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

Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat.

George Bernard Shaw
Acceptance, Soul, Sanctuary
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.2101, e-artnow

The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.

George Bernard Shaw
Car, Telephones, Morality
George Bernard Shaw (2004). “Fanny's First Play”, p.7, 1st World Publishing

We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.

George Bernard Shaw
Time, Long, Moments
Statement made in a 1946 debate to repeal the Conservatives' "Trade Disputes Act" of 1927 in "The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations", Third Edition, 1980.

Who is this Baby Ruth? And what does she do?

George Bernard Shaw
Funny, Baseball, Baby
"Baseball". Documentary, 1994.

Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.

George Bernard Shaw
Love, Funny, Marriage
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.2513, e-artnow

Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

George Bernard Shaw
Practice, Civilization, Rotten
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.4494, e-artnow

Our way of getting an army able to fight the German army is to declare war on Germany just as if we had such an army, and then trust to the appalling resultant peril and disaster to drive us into wholesale enlistment.

George Bernard Shaw
War, Army, Fighting
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.5298, e-artnow

That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.

George Bernard Shaw
Fighting, Successful, Secret
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.425, e-artnow

Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.

George Bernard Shaw
Writing, Literature, Trade

You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.

George Bernard Shaw
Writing, Men, Letters
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.713, e-artnow

When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since.

George Bernard Shaw
Sex, Men, Patents

The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.

George Bernard Shaw
Children, Discipline, Hypocrisy

Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.

George Bernard Shaw
Work, Income, Favour
1928 The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism.

I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit

George Bernard Shaw
Should Have, Taverns, Fool
Misalliance preface (1914)

We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.

George Bernard Shaw
Sex, Thinking, Taught

You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.

George Bernard Shaw
Women, Answers, Fool

The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.

George Bernard Shaw
Women, Pitfalls, World
George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy”, p.17, The Floating Press

All dress is fancy dress, is it not, except our natural skins?

George Bernard Shaw
Skins, Dresses, Fancy
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.4203, e-artnow

We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.

George Bernard Shaw
Class, Society, Politics
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.1315, e-artnow

The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave sentimentalists cold, by lawyers to describe cases which ruin all the parties to them, and by lovers to describe the objects of their infatuation, however unattractive they may appear to the unaffected spectators.

George Bernard Shaw
Beauty, Beautiful, Party
"Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw: A Correspondence". Book by Ellen Terry and Bernard Shaw, Preface, 1931.

The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

George Bernard Shaw
Men, Way, Be Good
Mrs Warren's Profession (1898) act 2

Marriage is tolerable enough in its way if youre easygoing and dont expect too much from it. But it doesnt bear thinking about.

George Bernard Shaw
Marriage, Thinking, Too Much
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.1777, e-artnow

The stock actor is a stage calamity

George Bernard Shaw
Actors, Stage, Calamity

As people get their opinions so largely from the newspapers they read, the corruption of the schools would not matter so much if the Press were free. But the Press is not free. As it costs at least a quarter of a million of money to establish a daily newspaper in London, the newspapers are owned by rich men. And they depend on the advertisements of other rich men. Editors and journalists who express opinions in print that are opposed to the interests of the rich are dismissed and replaced by subservient ones.

George Bernard Shaw
School, Men, Editors

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