George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

"HIGGINS [sitting down beside her] Rubbish! you shall marry an ambassador. You shall marry the Governor-General of India or the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, or somebody who wants a deputy-queen. I'm not going to have my masterpiece thrown away on Freddy. LIZA. You think I like you to say that. But I haven't forgot what you said a minute ago; and I won't be coaxed round as if I was a baby or a puppy. If I can't have kindness, I'll have independence. HIGGINS. Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth. LIZA [rising determinedly] I'll let you see whether I'm dependent on you. If you can preach, I can teach. I'll go and be a teacher. HIGGINS. What'll you teach, in heaven's name?LIZA. What you taught me. I'll teach phonetics. HIGGINS. Ha! Ha! Ha!"
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"HIGGINS [sitting down beside her] Rubbish! you shall marry an ambassador. You shall marry the Governor-General of India or the Lord-Lieutenant of Ireland, or somebody who wants a deputy-queen. I'm not going to have my masterpiece thrown away on Freddy. LIZA. You think I like you to say that. But I haven't forgot what you said a minute ago; and I won't be coaxed round as if I was a baby or a puppy. If I can't have kindness, I'll have independence. HIGGINS. Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth. LIZA [rising determinedly] I'll let you see whether I'm dependent on you. If you can preach, I can teach. I'll go and be a teacher. HIGGINS. What'll you teach, in heaven's name?LIZA. What you taught me. I'll teach phonetics. HIGGINS. Ha! Ha! Ha!"
George Bernard Shaw
"At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world."
George Bernard Shaw
"The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me."
George Bernard Shaw
"Nothing but the natural ignorance of the public, countenanced by the inoculated erroneousness of the ordinary general medical practitioners, makes such a barbarism as vaccination possible... Recent developments have shown that an inoculation made in the usual general practitioner's light-hearted way, without previous highly skilled examination of the state of the patient's blood, is just as likely to be a simple manslaughter as a cure or preventive. But vaccination is nothing short of attempted murder. A skilled bacteriologist would just as soon think of cutting his child's arm and rubbing the contents of the dustpan into the wound, as vaccinating it in the same."
George Bernard Shaw
"Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great."
George Bernard Shaw
"Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error."
George Bernard Shaw
"I need not repeat familiar arguments about the waste of teachers' time, and the difficulties thrown in the way of English children trying to learn their own language; or the fact that nobody without a visual memory for words ever succeeds in spelling conventionally, however highly educated he or she may be."
George Bernard Shaw
"My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity."
George Bernard Shaw
"Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience."
George Bernard Shaw
"The problem with communication…is the illusion that is has been accomplished."
George Bernard Shaw
"Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels."
George Bernard Shaw
"Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not."
George Bernard Shaw
"An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile."
George Bernard Shaw
"A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold."
George Bernard Shaw
"Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning."
George Bernard Shaw
"“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.”"
George Bernard Shaw
"No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means."
George Bernard Shaw
"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will."
George Bernard Shaw
"Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."
George Bernard Shaw
"Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!"
George Bernard Shaw
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