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Quotes of George Bernard Shaw (Russia)
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The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine. (riches)
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses. (secrets)
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. (silence)
We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins. (shame)
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A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. (taxes and taxation)
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation. (unhappiness)
We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies. (soul)
Better never than late. (punctuality)
When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them. (song and singing)
Ladies and gentleman are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen. (servants)
It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters. (public)
In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular. (angels)
The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it. (conversion)
Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree. (ancestry)
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days? (beauty)
You cannot be a hero without being a coward. (heroes and heroism)
Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long. (achievement)
She has lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech. (conversation)
Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious. (consequences)
A perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. (dance and dancing)
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements. (amusement)
I want to be all used up when I die. (death and dying)
Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me. (acting and actors)
In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage. (benefactors)
I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen. (creeds)
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