Irish - Dramatist | July 26, 1856 - November 2, 1950
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
George Bernard Shaw
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It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.
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If I were a woman, I'd simply refuse to speak to any man or do anything for men until I'd got the vote.
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The Nazi movement is in many respects one which has my warmest sympathy.
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The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person.
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What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.
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The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider!
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If you're not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can't be of very much use to yourself.
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We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
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There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.
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I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.
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When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
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