| 227 Famous Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
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“A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a
healthy man of his bones. But if you break a nation's
nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set
again.”
Patriotism Quotes Source: John Bull's Other Island (preface)
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“You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out
of the human race.”
Patriotism Quotes Source: O'Flaherty, V.C.
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“The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated
fashions of the generation before last.”
Fashion Quotes Source: Three Plays for Puritans (preface)
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“Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to
alter it every six months.”
Fashion Quotes Source: Three Plays for Puritans (preface)
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“What really flatters a man is that you think him worth
flattering.”
Flattery Quotes Source: John Bull's Other Island
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“There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's
desire. The other is to get it.”
Desire Quotes Source: Man and Superman (act IV)
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“When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always
declares that it is his duty.”
Duty Quotes Source: Caesar and Cleopatra
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“The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us
as much as the word telephone or motor car.”
Morality Quotes Source: Fanny's First Play (preface)
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“An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.”
Morality Quotes Source: Man and Superman
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“Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are
disgraced by the inferior.”
Titles Quotes Source: Man and Superman
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“You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out
of the human race.”
World peace Quotes Source: O'Flaherty, V.C.
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“I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.”
Hunger Quotes Source: Major Barbara
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“The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the
hunger for bread.”
Hunger Quotes Source: Major Barbara
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“When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always
declares that it is his duty.”
Stupidity Quotes Source: Caesar and Cleopatra
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“Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as
an educated gentlemen.”
Greece Quotes Source: Major Barbara
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“Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and
brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in
Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first
and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one.”
Ireland Quotes Source: quoted in "Ireland in Mind", Alice Leccese Powers, ed. (2000)
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“An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination.”
Ireland Quotes Source: John Bull's Other Island
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“There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for
all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes.”
Medicine Quotes Source: The Doctor's Dilemma
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“I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness
worth while.”
Sickness Quotes Source: Back to Methuselah
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“Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for
established institutions as well as those who are too good for
them.”
Revolution Quotes Source: Androcles and the Lion
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“Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have
only shifted it to another shoulder.”
Revolution Quotes Source: Man and Superman--"The Revolutionist's Handbook"
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“Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill
one another if it is not done.”
Beginnings Quotes Source: Major Barbara
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“There is no love sincerer than the love of food.”
Food Quotes Source: Man and Superman
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“A man who has no office to go to--I don't care who he is--is a
trial of which you can have no conception.”
Idleness Quotes Source: The Irrational Knot (ch. XVIII)
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“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 opinion, of our experience,
just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.”
Shame Quotes Source: Man and Superman (act I)
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