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What Is The Matter With The Rich Is Uselessness.

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George Bernard Shaw

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What Is The Matter With The Rich Is Uselessness.

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When The Military Man Approaches, The World Locks Up Its Spoons And Packs Off Its Womankind.

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Nobody Can Say A Word Against Greek: It Stamps A Man At Once As An Educated Gentlemen.

I'm Not A Teacher: Only A Fellow Traveler Of Whom You Asked The Way. I Pointed Ahead - Ahead Of Myself As Well As You.

Conceive. That Is The Word That Means Both The Beginning In Imagination And The End In Creation.

The Truth Is The One Thing That Nobody Will Believe.

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.

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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.

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Money Is Indeed The Most Important Thing In The World; And All Sound And Successful Personal And National Morality Should Have This Fact For Its Basis.

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The Faults Of The Burglar Are The Qualities Of The Financier.

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Socialism Is The Same As Communism, Only Better English.

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I Occasionally Swank A Little Because People Like It; A Modest Man Is Such A Nuisance.

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Defeatism Is The Wretchedest Of Policies.

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What We Want Is To See The Child In Pursuit Of Knowledge, And Not Knowledge In Pursuit Of The Child.

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If You Do Not Say A Thing In An Irritating Way, You May As Well Not Say It At All Because People Will Not Trouble Themselves About Anything That Does Not Trouble Them.

I Have Prophesied About The Faith Of Muhammad That It Would Be Acceptable To The Europe Of Tomorrow As It Is Beginning To Be Acceptable To The Europe Of Today. ... I Believe That If A Man Like Him Were To Assume The Dictatorship Of The Modern World He Would Succeed In Solving Its Problems In A Way That Would Bring It The Much-needed Peace And Happiness.

Remember That I Too Am Mortal.

All Autobiographies Are Lies. I Do Not Mean Unconscious, Unintentional Lies: I Mean Deliberate Lies.

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I Have To Live For Others And Not For Myself: That's Middle-class Morality.

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When A Thing Is Funny, Search It Carefully For A Hidden Truth.

Now Of All The Idealist Abominations That Make Society Pestiferous I Doubt If There Be Any So Mean As That Of Forcing Self-sacrifice On A Woman Under The Pretense That She Likes It.

Those Who Minister To Poverty And Disease Are Accomplices In The Two Worst Of All The Crimes.

If A Woman Rebels Against High-heeled Shoes, She Should Take Care To Do It In A Very Smart Hat

My Specialty Is Being Right When Other People Are Wrong.

When Two People Are Under The Influence Of The Most Violent, Most Insane, Most Delusive, And Most Transient Of Passions, They Are Required To Swear That They Will Remain In That Excited, Abnormal, And Exhausting Condition Continuously Until Death Do Them Part.

After All, The Wrong Road Always Leads Somewhere.

I Try To Follow His Example, Not To Imitate Him.

A Man Has No Business To Marry A Woman Who Can't Make Him Miserable. It Means She Can't Make Him Happy.

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The Sex Relation Is Not A Personal Relation. It Can Be Irresistibly Desired And Rapturously Consummated Between Persons Who Could Not Endure One Another For A Day In Any Other Relation.

The Educated Man Is A Greater Nuisance Than The Uneducated One.

He Knows Nothing And Thinks He Knows Everything. That Points Clearly To A Political Career.

Every Girl Has A Right To Be Loved.

As Long As More People Will Pay Admission To A Theater To See A Naked Body Than To See A Naked Brain, The Drama Will Languish.

My Schooling Not Only Failed To Teach Me What It Professed To Be Teaching, But Prevented Me From Being Educated To An Extent Which Infuriates Me When I Think Of All I Might Have Learned At Home By Myself.

The Word Morality, If We Met It In The Bible, Would Surprise Us As Much As The Word Telephone Or Motor Car.

I Have My Own Soul. My Own Spark Of Divine Fire.

People Expect Too Much Of One Year And Too Little Of Ten.

I Talk Democracy To These Men And Women. I Tell Them That They Have The Vote, And That Theirs Is The Kingdom And The Power And The Glory. I Say To Them You Are Supreme: Exercise Your Power. They Say, That's Right: Tell Us What To Do; And I Tell Them. I Say Exercise Our Vote Intelligently By Voting For Me. And They Do. That's Democracy; And A Splendid Thing It Is Too For Putting The Right Men In The Right Place.

The Lesson Intended By An Author Is Hardly Ever The Lesson The World Chooses To Learn From His Book.

The Hand Of The Painter Is Incurably Mechanical: His Technique Is Incurably Artificial... The Camera... Is So Utterly Unmechanical.

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.

Self-sacrifice Enables Us To Sacrifice Other People Without Blushing.

Democracy Is A Word All Public Men Use And None Understand.

I'm Sick Of All The Reasonable People: They See All The Reasons For Doing Nothing

I Learned More From The First Stupid Woman Who Fell In Love With Me Than Ever My Brains Taught Me.

The Utmost I Can Bear For Myself In My Best Days Is That I Was One Of The Hundred Best Playwrights In The World, Which Is Hardly A Supreme Distinction.

Two People Getting Together To Write A Book Is Like Three People Getting Together To Have A Baby. One Of Them Is Superfluous.

If You Can’t Appreciate What You’ve Got, You’d Better Get What You Can Appreciate.

The Things Most People Want To Know About Are Usually None Of Their Business.

We Must Always Think About Things, And We Must Think About Things As They Are, Not As They Are Said To Be.

Nothing Is Ever Accomplished By A Reasonable Man.

When A Lion Meets Another With A Louder Roar, The First Lion Thinks The Last A Bore.

Female Murderers Get Sheaves Of Offers Of Marriage.

The Quality Of A Play Is The Quality Of Its Ideas.

You Are All Fundamentalists With A Top Dressing Of Science. That Is Why You Are The Stupidest Of Conservatives And Reactionists In Politics And The Most Bigoted Of Obstructionists In Science Itself. When It Comes To Getting A Move On You Are All Of The Same Opinion: Stop It, Flog It, Hang It, Dynamite It, Stamp It Out.

Revelations: A Curious Record Of The Visions Of A Drug Addict.

Of All The Damnable Waste Of Human Life That Ever Was Invented, Clerking Is The Worst.

Women Are Called Womanly Only When They Regard Themselves As Existing Solely For The Use Of Men.

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