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Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

George Bernard Shaw
Law, Wish, Firsts
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.744, e-artnow

A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.

George Bernard Shaw
Sleep, Naps, Lectures
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.3045, e-artnow

Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?

George Bernard Shaw
Inspirational, Funny, Life

The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.

George Bernard Shaw
Boys, Shoes, White

When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.

George Bernard Shaw
Song, Singing, Tunes
George Bernard Shaw (2016). “The Adventures Of Black Girl in Her Search for God”, p.35, George Bernard Shaw

Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.

George Bernard Shaw
Memories, Children, Grief

Schools and schoolmasters, as we have them today, are not popular as places of education and teachers, but rather prisons and turnkeys in which children are kept to prevent them disturbing and chaperoning their parent.

George Bernard Shaw
Teacher, Children, School
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “Plays Unpleasant”, p.4, Read Books Ltd

Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.

George Bernard Shaw
Prayer, Mercy Of God, Venice

The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it

George Bernard Shaw
Community, Faces, Moments
George Bernard Shaw (1993). “The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929”, Viking Adult

The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.

George Bernard Shaw
Real, Noise, Sentimental

I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

George Bernard Shaw
Vegetarianism, Forever, Vegan Food
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.

George Bernard Shaw
Work, Likes, Painting

People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing that criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading. It is the capacity for making good or bad art a personal matter that makes a man a critic.

George Bernard Shaw
Art, Reading, Men

In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.

George Bernard Shaw
Money, Winning, Gambling
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.5565, e-artnow

We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction.

George Bernard Shaw
Sex, Women, Effort
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.1931, e-artnow

Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted.

George Bernard Shaw
Women, Sometimes, Monotonous

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

George Bernard Shaw
Life, Would Be, Amusement

Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.

George Bernard Shaw
Real, Men, Religion
"Getting Married (Hotchkiss)". Play by George Bernard Shaw, May 12, 1908.

Perhaps I had better inform my Protestant readers that the famous Dogma of Papal Infallibility is by far the most modest pretension of the kind in existence. Compared with our infallible democracies, our infallible medical councils, our infallible astronomers, our infallible judges, and our infallible parliaments, the Pope is on his knees in the dust confessing his ignorance before the throne of God, asking only that as to certain historical matters on which he has clearly more sources of information open to him than anyone else his decision shall be taken as final.

George Bernard Shaw
Taken, Ignorance, Dust
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.4082, e-artnow

The medieval doctors of divinity who did not pretend to settle how many angels could dance on the point of a needle cut a very poor figure as far as romantic credulity is concerned beside the modern physicists who have settled to the billionth of a millimetre every movement and position in the dance of the electrons. Not for worlds would I question the precise accuracy of these calculations or the existence of electrons (whatever they may be). The fate of Joan is a warning to me against such heresy.

George Bernard Shaw
Angel, Fate, Cutting
George Bernard Shaw (1993). “The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929”, Viking Adult

Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

George Bernard Shaw
Society, Today, Crime
George Bernard Shaw (1993). “The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929”, Viking Adult

When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, "The one I feed the most."

George Bernard Shaw
Dog, Native American, Winning

Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

George Bernard Shaw
Science, Trying, Invention
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

[...] any fool can make a discovery. Every baby has to discover more in the first years of its life than Roger Bacon ever discovered in his laboratory.

George Bernard Shaw
Baby, Science, Technology
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.3937, e-artnow

What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are not even conscious, just as we are not normally conscious of keeping up our circulation by our heart-pump, though if we neglect it we die.

George Bernard Shaw
Heart, Men, Important
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.5765, e-artnow

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