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Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and really nice English people; and what do you always find? That the stables are the real center of the household.


George Bernard Shaw

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GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend ... if you have one." GEORGE BERNARD SHAW You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. T...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyon...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Youth is wasted on the young.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid of.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceiv...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they wa...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing c...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other c...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure witho...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be n hell is to drift: to b...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were ...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW You'll never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespe...
GEORGE BERNARD SHAW Independence? That's middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us o...
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