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I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's up agen middle class morality all the time.... What is middle class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me

I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's up agen middle class morality all the time.... What is middle class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything.

George Bernard Shaw
Mean, Men, Thinking
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.3365, e-artnow

Without music we shall surely perish of drink, morphia, and all sorts of artificial exaggerations of the cruder delights of the senses.

George Bernard Shaw
Delight, Drink, Without Music

The shot Irishmen will now take their places beside Emmet and the Manchester Martyrs in Ireland, and beside the heroes of Poland and Sérbia and Belgium in Europe; and nothing in heaven or earth can prevent it.

George Bernard Shaw
Hero, Europe, Heaven

General consultant to mankind.

George Bernard Shaw
Mankind, Consultants

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

George Bernard Shaw
Married, Virtue, Trade
Man and Superman (1903) act 3

While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: "To ----, with esteem, George Bernard Shaw." He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: "With renewed esteem, George Bernard Shaw.

George Bernard Shaw
Book, Hands, One Day

Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.

George Bernard Shaw
Men, Differences, Young
Major Barbara (1907) act 3

I can't turn your soul on. Leave me those feelings; and you can take away the voice and the face. They are not you.

George Bernard Shaw
Voice, Soul, Feelings
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “Pygmalion (Illustrated Edition): A Satirical Take on English Language and Englishmen From the Author of Renowned Plays like Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Arms and The Man, Caesar And Cleopatra, Man and Superman”, p.200, e-artnow

Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one.

George Bernard Shaw
Men, Good Man, Add
George Bernard Shaw (2016). “The Critical Shaw: On Literature”, p.194, RosettaBooks

A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there.

George Bernard Shaw
Children, Book, World

That is the injustice of a woman's lot. A woman has to bring up her children; and that means to restrain them, to deny them things they want, to set them tasks, to punish them when they do wrong, to do all the unpleasant things. And then the father, who has nothing to do but pet them and spoil them, comes in when all her work is done and steals their affection from her.

George Bernard Shaw
Children, Father, Mean
George Bernard Shaw (2008). “Pygmalion and Major Barbara”, p.78, Bantam Classics

Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.

George Bernard Shaw
Real, Thinking, People
Candida (1898) act 1

You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

George Bernard Shaw
Mother, Hero, Power
George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Major Barbara”, p.79, Courier Corporation

What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.

George Bernard Shaw
Children, School, Essence
George Bernard Shaw (1993). “The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929”, Viking Adult

I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.

George Bernard Shaw
Crazy, Mad, Assuming

If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.

George Bernard Shaw
Gentleman, May, Produce

He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.

George Bernard Shaw
Giving, Doe, Reason
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.1448, e-artnow

I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.

George Bernard Shaw
Women, Writing, Pygmalion
Pygmalion (1916) act 2

Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.

George Bernard Shaw
Technology, America, Needs

You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can produce a wrong answer.

George Bernard Shaw
Science, Numbers, Giving

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

George Bernard Shaw
Children, Communication, Pygmalion
Pygmalion (1916) preface

I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.

George Bernard Shaw
Children, Fun, Cutting

It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of drifting down the midstream of mere ignorance.

George Bernard Shaw
School, Ignorance, Rocks
George Bernard Shaw (2007). “Back to Methuselah”, p.15, 1st World Publishing

Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

George Bernard Shaw
Civilization, Modern, Steam Engines
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

The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.

George Bernard Shaw
Humility, Church, Teach
Saint Joan (1924) preface

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