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Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die.

Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die.

George Bernard Shaw
Sister, Curiosity, Dying
Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing -a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.

George Bernard Shaw
Death, Pain, Heart

Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.

George Bernard Shaw
Morning, Laughter, Boredom
George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Man and Superman: A Comedy and a Philosophy”, p.170, The Floating Press

I work as my father drank.

George Bernard Shaw
Father, Drank

Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?

George Bernard Shaw
Economics, Ifs
George Bernard Shaw (2016). “Pygmalion”, p.28, Xist Publishing

Being hurt by someone you truly care about leaves a hole in you heart that only love can fill.

George Bernard Shaw
Hurt, Heart, Confusion

How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.

George Bernard Shaw
Believe, Rebellious, Contradiction

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

George Bernard Shaw
Love, Hate, Liberty
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.4481, e-artnow

My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately

George Bernard Shaw
Funny, Father, Humorous

People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good.

George Bernard Shaw
People, Good People, Favourite

Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.

George Bernard Shaw
Fashion, Epidemics, Prove
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.404, e-artnow

It is well to be off with the old woman before you're on with the new.

George Bernard Shaw
Women, Divorce, Wells
George Bernard Shaw (2004). “The Philanderer”, p.53, 1st World Publishing

We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable second-rateness of the people we do know.

George Bernard Shaw
People, Luck, Firsts
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.717, e-artnow

To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.

George Bernard Shaw
Encouraging, Conceited, Debt

Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.

George Bernard Shaw
Women, Female, Murderer
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.2572, e-artnow

A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.

George Bernard Shaw
Women, Mean, Miserable

We must all share in the evils of the world or move to another planet.

George Bernard Shaw
Moving, Evil, World

A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.

George Bernard Shaw
Believe, Men, Self
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.552, e-artnow

If you do not write for publication, there is little point in writing at all.

George Bernard Shaw
Writing, Littles, Publication

It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for a novel to be too good to be worth publishing.

George Bernard Shaw
Novel, Clear, Publishing

You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? . . . If it's by a good author, it's a good play, naturally. That stands to reason.

George Bernard Shaw
Play, Reason, Good Authors

All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport - in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy.

George Bernard Shaw
Sports, Dog, Travel

Let not the right side of your brain know what the left side doeth.

George Bernard Shaw
Brain, Left Hand, Lefties
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.2191, e-artnow

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship; and it seems hard to justify an incitement to it on anti-censorial principles.

George Bernard Shaw
Principles, Politics, Censorship
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.2743, e-artnow

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood

George Bernard Shaw
Men, Blood, Idols
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.4483, e-artnow

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