George Bernard Shaw

1856 - 1950

A Quote by George Bernard Shaw on home and life

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The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life

George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

Source: You Never Can Tell

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A Quote by George Bernard Shaw on hunger and religion

I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

Source: Major Barbara

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A Quote by George Bernard Shaw on age, christ, and imagination

Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination.

George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

Source: St. Joan (1924)

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A Quote by George Bernard Shaw on disorder, earth, insanity, and world

When commenting on the turmoil and disorder of the world, If the other planets are inhabited, they must be using this earth as their insane asylum.

George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

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A Quote by George Bernard Shaw on flattery and worth

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

Source: John Bull’s Other Island

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A Quote by George Bernard Shaw on liberty, men, and responsibility

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

Source: Maxims for Revolutionists

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A Quote by George Bernard Shaw on jobs

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Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.

George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

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A Quote by George Bernard Shaw on business, courtship, earth, goals, and success

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.

George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

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A Quote by George Bernard Shaw

Do not do unto others as you would they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

Source: Man and Superman (1903)

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A Quote by George Bernard Shaw on belief and heresy

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

George Bernard Shaw (1856 - 1950)

Source: St. Joan (1924)

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