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If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat

If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat

George Bernard Shaw
Smart, Shoes, Rebel

Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

George Bernard Shaw
Vices, Revolution, Courageous
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.311, e-artnow

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

George Bernard Shaw
Funny, Humor, Use It Or Lose It

Instruction in sex is as important as instruction in food; yet not only are our adolescents not taught the physiology of sex, but never warned that the strongest sexual attraction may exist between persons so incompatible in tastes and capacities that they could not endure living together for a week much less a lifetime.

George Bernard Shaw
Sex, Together, Important

Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands. For example, every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it, and consequently a revolutionist.

George Bernard Shaw
Men, Example, Skeptic
Nelly Sachs, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme (1971). “Nelly Sachs, Jean-Paul Sartre, George Bernard Shaw, Frans Eemil Sillanpää, René Sully-Prudhomme”

Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.

George Bernard Shaw
Law, Retail, Rebellious
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

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

George Bernard Shaw
Courage, Men, Common Sense
Notes to Caesar and Cleopatra (1901) "Julius Caesar"

I try to follow his example, not to imitate him.

George Bernard Shaw
Trying, Example
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.477, e-artnow

If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

George Bernard Shaw
Inspirational, Dance, Witty
"Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.

George Bernard Shaw
Men, Anxiety, Prison
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

What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.

George Bernard Shaw
Marriage, Men, Together

When commenting on the turmoil and disorder of the world, If the other planets are inhabited, they must be using this earth as their insane asylum.

George Bernard Shaw
Insanity, Insane, World

I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one.

George Bernard Shaw
Life, Night, Play

For the pre-Darwinian age had come to be regarded as a Dark Age in which men still believed that the book of Genesis was a standard scientific treatise, and that the only additions to it were Galileo'a demonstration of Leonardo da Vinci's simple remark that the earth is a moon of the sun, Sir Humphrey Davy's invention of the safety lamp, the discovery of electricity, the application of steam to industrial purposes, and the penny post.

George Bernard Shaw
Book, Dark, Science

Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.

George Bernard Shaw
Not Good Enough, Revolution, Moments
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.3289, e-artnow

We are more gullible and superstitious today than we were in the Middle Ages, and an example of modern credulity is the widespread belief that the Earth is round. The average man can advance not a single reason for thinking that the Earth is round. He merely swallows this theory because there is something about it that appeals to the twentieth century mentality.

George Bernard Shaw
Men, Thinking, Average

We are members one of another; so that you cannot injure or help your neighbor without injuring or helping yourself.

George Bernard Shaw
Diversity, Brotherhood, Helping
George Bernard Shaw (1993). “The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929”, Viking Adult

I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.

George Bernard Shaw
Book, Years, Names

I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.

George Bernard Shaw
Law, Parent, Married

My situation is a solemn one: life is offered to me on the condition of eating beefsteaks. But death is better than cannibalism. My will contains directions for my funeral, which will be followed, not by mourning coaches, but by oxen, sheep, flocks of poultry, and a small traveling aquarium of live fish, all wearing white scarves in honor of the man who perished rather than eat his fellow creatures. It will be, without the exception of Noah's Ark, the most remarkable thing of its kind ever seen.

George Bernard Shaw
Men, Aquariums, White

I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.

George Bernard Shaw
Rodin, Photographer, Thinker

Geniuses are horrid, intolerant, easily offended, sleeplessly self-conscious men, who expect their wives to be angels with no further business in life than to pet and worship their husbands. Even at the best they are not comfortable men to live with; and a perfect husband is one who is perfectly comfortable to live with.

George Bernard Shaw
Husband, Angel, Men
"Love Among the Artists". Book by George Bernard Shaw, 1900.

Nobody supposes that doctors are less virtuous than judges; but a judge whose salary and reputation depended on whether the verdict was for plaintiff or defendant, prosecutor or prisoner, would be as little trusted as a general in the pay of the enemy.

George Bernard Shaw
Doctors, Judging, Enemy
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.2394, e-artnow

Sexually,Woman is Nature's contrivance for perpetuating its highest achievement.

George Bernard Shaw
Achievement, Sexually, Perpetuating
1903 Don Juan to Ana. Man and Superman, act 3.

There have been summits of civilization at which heretics like Socrates , who was killed because he was wiser than his neighbors, have not been tortured, but ordered to kill themselves in the most painless manner known to their judges. But from that summit there was a speedy relapse into our present savagery.

George Bernard Shaw
Civilization, Judging, Neighbor
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.4518, e-artnow

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