George Bernard Shaw
"It is easy-terribly easy-to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to to break a man's spirit is Devil's work."
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"It is easy-terribly easy-to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to to break a man's spirit is Devil's work."
George Bernard Shaw
"My dear: in this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it."
George Bernard Shaw
"How we lavish our money and worship on Shakespeare without in the least knowing why!"
George Bernard Shaw
"The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor."
George Bernard Shaw
"You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing."
George Bernard Shaw
"A tragic situation exists precisely when virtue does NOT triumph but when it is still felt that man is nobler than the forces which destroy him."
George Bernard Shaw
"What man really wishes to do he will find a means of doing."
George Bernard Shaw
"Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated."
George Bernard Shaw
"Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn’t really hurt."
George Bernard Shaw
"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything."
George Bernard Shaw
"The longer I live the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time."
George Bernard Shaw
"While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered beasts, how can we expect any ideal conditions on this earth?"
George Bernard Shaw
"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas."
George Bernard Shaw
"The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas."
George Bernard Shaw
"Written over the gate here are the words 'Leave every hope behind, ye who enter.' Only think what a relief that is! For what is hope? A form of moral responsibility. Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself."
George Bernard Shaw
"Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."
George Bernard Shaw
"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."
George Bernard Shaw
"England and America are two countries separated by the same language."
George Bernard Shaw
"The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place."
George Bernard Shaw
"Youth is wasted on the young."
George Bernard Shaw
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