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George Bernard Shaw Quotes


An index is a great leveller.

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.

Beauty is a short-lived tyranny.

Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.

Better never than late.

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.