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An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.

An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.6042, e-artnow

Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.308, e-artnow

He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.305, e-artnow

God is on the side of the big battalions.

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.4161, e-artnow

Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow.

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3816, e-artnow

Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.1695, e-artnow

German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “Pygmalion (Illustrated Edition): A Satirical Take on English Language and Englishmen From the Author of Renowned Plays like Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Arms and The Man, Caesar And Cleopatra, Man and Superman”, p.116, e-artnow

Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence

'Man and Superman' (1903) 'Maxims: Decency'

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

George Bernard Shaw (2004). “Fanny's First Play”, p.85, 1st World Publishing

Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.534, e-artnow

We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.3222, e-artnow