We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence...on pain of liquidation

George Bernard Shaw


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The ultimate form of censorship is assassination.

George Bernard Shaw


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My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

George Bernard Shaw

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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

George Bernard Shaw

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

George Bernard Shaw

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Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

George Bernard Shaw

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Style is a sort of melody that comes into my sentences by itself. If a writer says what he has to say as accurately and effectively as he can, his style will take care of itself.

George Bernard Shaw


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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.

George Bernard Shaw

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Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat.

George Bernard Shaw


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The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor: he took my measure anew every time he saw me, whilst all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.

George Bernard Shaw

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