George Bernard Shaw Quotes

1.3K quotes · Playwright, Critic

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George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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George Bernard Shaw

Playwright, Critic

Funny

“Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.”

Real Running Jealousy

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George Bernard Shaw

Playwright, Critic

Courageous

“You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.”

Life Communication Get Well

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Angry

“The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.”

Men Science

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Funny

“Those who understand evil pardon it.”

Evil Pardon

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Peaceful

“It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.”

Broken Heart Heartbreak Heartache

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Philosophical

“If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.”

Business Money

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Funny

“The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.”

Two Food

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Spiritual

“We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.”

Knows Purpose Intention

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Creative

“Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.”

Thinking Food Sheep

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Angry

“Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!”

Life Love Sex

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Angry

“Of the three official objects of our prison system: vengeance, deterrence, and reformation of the criminal, only one is achieved; and that is the one which is nakedly abominable.”

Three Criminals Vengeance

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Grateful

“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.”

Years Giving Dream

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