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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

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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 Quotes

“That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.”

“A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.”

“The notion that Nature does not proceed by jumps is only one of the budget of plausible lies that we call classical education. Nature always proceeds by jumps. She may spend twenty thousand years making up her mind to jump; but when she makes it up at last, the jump is big enough to take us into a new age.”

“It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.”

“The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.”

“My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen.”

“He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him”

“All problems are finally scientific problems.”

“It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.”

“There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.”

“If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters.”

“Life is too short for men to take it seriously.”