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There are two things necessary to Salvation ... Money and gunpowder. — George Bernard Shaw

Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another. — George Bernard Shaw

A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes. — George Bernard Shaw

If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing. — George Bernard Shaw

An entertainer pleases others while an artist only has to please himself. — Artie Shaw

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be. — George Bernard Shaw

Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer. — George Bernard Shaw

Any belief worth having must survive doubt — George Bernard Shaw

Why do you hate her, Emily?"
"For reminding me that I did this to myself. — Tanya Byrne

Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety. — George Bernard Shaw

First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity. — George Bernard Shaw

Compassion is the fellow-feeling of the unsound. — George Bernard Shaw

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize. — George Bernard Shaw

They say the one thing that people who live the longest have in common is that they have a religious belief. — Jim Shaw

The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life. — George Bernard Shaw

Even when they have nothing, the Irish emit a kind of happiness, a joy. — Fiona Shaw

I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian. — George Bernard Shaw

The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not. — George Bernard Shaw

I should take a photo.'
'No. Just remember it, and us in it. — Ali Shaw

A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief. — George Bernard Shaw

What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?. — George Bernard Shaw

Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend. — George Bernard Shaw

Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty. — George Bernard Shaw

The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people. — George Bernard Shaw

Writing is like going underwater - thank you for being there when I come back up. — Ali Shaw

If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam. — George Bernard Shaw

The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness. — George Bernard Shaw

Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal. — George Bernard Shaw

I never accepted a knighthood because to me, is honour enough? — George Bernard Shaw

It was sort of an experiment to try to leave the violin. Can I be a real person without this thing? It was a big part of my identity. — Caroline Shaw

Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another. — George Bernard Shaw

If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge. — George Bernard Shaw

Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave. — George Bernard Shaw

The churches must learn humility as well as teach it. — George Bernard Shaw

I don't write on tour. There is so much to do day in and day out when you are on the road. — Tommy Shaw

A writer has to live with a sense of honor. — Irwin Shaw

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience. — George Bernard Shaw

In theory it may seem all right to some, but when it comes to being made the instrument of the Lord's vengeance, I myself don't like it. — Robert Gould Shaw

God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise. — George Bernard Shaw

Truer words were never spoken. — Michelle Hodkin

Shall I turn up the light for you?
No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light. — George Bernard Shaw

P.G. Wodehouse was a huge influence on me when I was younger, as were Edgar Rice Burroughs and George Bernard Shaw. — Michael Moorcock

Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn. — George Bernard Shaw

I don't believe in morality . I'm a disciple of Bernard Shaw. — George Bernard Shaw

The stock actor is a stage calamity — George Bernard Shaw

Newspaper : A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation. — George Bernard Shaw

Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat. — George Bernard Shaw

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. — George Bernard Shaw

I don't live in London - I'm based in Norfolk and have a place in Scotland. — Martin Shaw

Where equality is undisputed, so also is subordination. — George Bernard Shaw

If the governments devalue the currency in order to betray all creditors, you politely call this procedure 'inflation'. — George Bernard Shaw

The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one. — George Bernard Shaw

People who light up like Roman candles come down in the dark very quickly. — Irwin Shaw

I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take. — Fiona Shaw

I agree about Shaw - he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor. — William Butler Yeats

Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes. — George Bernard Shaw

A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future. — George Bernard Shaw

I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married. — George Bernard Shaw

The concepts of Joss are pure, and express attitudes and technical ideals. — Cliff Shaw

She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech. — George Bernard Shaw

People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them. — George Bernard Shaw

My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same. — George Bernard Shaw

It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession. — George Bernard Shaw

I wish people would stop talking about my birthday. — George Bernard Shaw

My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me. — Irwin Shaw

Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself. — George Bernard Shaw

The 100% American is 99% idiot. — George Bernard Shaw

I do not know what I think until I write it. — George Bernard Shaw

This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby. — George Bernard Shaw

Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject. — George Bernard Shaw

In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win. — George Bernard Shaw

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad. — George Bernard Shaw

In heaven an angel is no one in particular. — George Bernard Shaw

To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching. — George Bernard Shaw

General consultant to mankind. — George Bernard Shaw

You don't rewrite it, censor it, or edit it, to suit some warped view you have of the past and your own present. — V.T. Davy

The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it. — George Bernard Shaw

I write science fiction for people who don't read a great deal of science fiction. — Bob Shaw

Literature is too full of 'acknowledgments' and squabbles about originality ... — George Bernard Shaw

We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead. — George Bernard Shaw

He who has never hoped can never despair — George Bernard Shaw

Healthy people do not buy prescription drugs,therefore, big pharma does not produce drugs that actually cure anything. — J. Thomas Shaw

Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless. — George Bernard Shaw

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none. — Mel Brooks

My legacy is going to be in affordable health care. I am willing to invest in developing that model and the policies around it. — Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw

Wilde's permanent celebrity belongs to literature, and only his transient notoriety to police news. — 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

No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another. — George Bernard Shaw

Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law. — George Bernard Shaw

Somemenare bornkings; and someare bornstatesmen. The two are seldom the same. — George Bernard Shaw

When a lion meets another with a louder roar the first lion thinks the last a bore. — George Bernard Shaw

Just seeing other people, people getting on with their normal lives, is such a hard thing after you've lost someone so close to you. — Jennifer Shaw Wolf

I'm glad he's hungry. Not that I want him to suffer, poor chap! But then he'll enjoy eating me much more. There's a cheerful side to everything. — George Bernard Shaw

Before I had crossed the threshold of my church I was made to realize that I was shepherd of a divided flock. — Anna Howard Shaw

There is a great relief in experiencing the worst vicariously. — Fiona Shaw

Benny Goodman plays the clarinet. I play music. — Artie Shaw

If I could have done anything more, it would have been less — Artie Shaw

If you don't see the wonder in the most ordinary phenomenon, you're not going to resonate very much. — Artie Shaw

The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post. — George Bernard Shaw

Without good manners, human society would be intolerable and impossible — George Bernard Shaw