It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman despise him.
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George Bernard Shaw
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Works
Books and titles linked to this author
Advice to a Young Critic
Androcles and the Lion
Authors on Film
Back to Methuselah
Caesar and Cleopatra
Candida
Dramatic opinions and essays
Dramatic Opinions and Essays, volume 2
Fanny's First Play
Getting Married
Heartbreak House
Immaturity
John Bull's Other Island
Major Barbara
Man and Superman
Misalliance
Misalliance/The Dark Lady of the Sonnets/Fanny's First Play with a Treatise on Parents and Children
Mrs. Warren's Profession
Music in London
My Fair Lady
Overruled
Pygmalion
Pygmalion and Related Readings
Saint Joan
The Doctor's Dilemma: A Tragedy
The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism
The Irrational Knot
The Philanderer
The Political Madhouse in America and Nearer Home
The Quintessence of Ibsenism
Quotes
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I am only a beer teetotaller not a champagne teetotaller.
There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
As long as I have a want I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.
You can lose a man like that by your own death but not by his.
The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
She had lost the art of conversation but not unfortunately the power of speech.
You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.
You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard but by attacking and getting well-hammered yourself.
Progress is impossible without change and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
Self-denial is not a virtue it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one and do without change.
All professions are a conspiracy against the country.
I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.
Peace is not only better than war but infinitely more arduous.
A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.