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“Marx's Kapital is not a treatise on socialism; it is a gerrymand against the bourgeoisie. It was supposed to be written for the working class, but the working man respects the bourgeoisie and wants to be a bourgeoisie. Marx never got a hold of him for a moment. It was the revolting sons of the bourgeoisie itself, like myself, that painted the flag red. The middle and upper classes are the revolutionary element in society. The proletariat is the conservative element.”

“Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.”

Thinking Knows Want Husband

Book: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

Source: 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

“If there is anything I hate in a woman, it's want of character.”

Ifs Want Character Hate I Hate

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“If you do things merely because you think some other fool expects you to do them, and he expects you to do them because he thinks you expect him to expect you to do them, it will end in everybody doing what nobody wants to do, which is in my opinion a silly state of things.”

Ifs Thinking Want Ends States Opinion Fool Silly

Book:Selected Short Plays

Source: Selected Short Plays

“I do not want actors and actresses to understand my plays. That is not necessary. If they will only pronounce the correct sounds I can guarantee the results.”

Ifs Want I Can Play Actors Sound Results Acting Actresses Guarantees Actors And Actresses

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Always strive to find out what to do by thinking, without asking anybody. If you continually do this, you will soon act like a grown-up woman. For want of doing this, a very great number of grown-up people act like children.”

People Ifs Thinking Want Children Numbers Childhood Asking Strive Thoughtful

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Not until he acquires European manners does the American anarchist become the gentleman who assures you that people cannot be mademoral by Act of Parliament (the truth being that it is only by Acts of Parliament that men in large communities can be made moral, even when they want to).”

People Men Want Doe Made Law Community Moral Truth Is Manners Gentleman Acquire Parliament Anarchist

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.”

Thinking Knows Want Actors Poet Actresses Thrive Poetry Is Composer Actors And Actresses

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.”

Men Want Long Funny Women Willing Vote Election Witty Clever Attractive Attractiveness Clever Man Attractive Woman Clever Woman

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.”

Want Believe Moments Belief Argument Blind Contention

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.”

People Ifs World Want Life Inspirational Humans Looks Success Motivation Opportunity Leadership Business Careers Progress Military This World Inspirational Life Hard Work Evolution Circumstances Giving Up Findings Perseverance Get Up Live Life Changing The World Staying Not Giving Up Never Giving Up Setting Goals Making Changes Given Up Gave Up Stay Strong Taking Action Work Done Power Of Positive Thinking Hardwork Determination And Success Doing Your Best Follow Your Passion Do Not Give Up Never Give Up On Something Get The Job Done Perseverance And Determination Inspirational Perseverance Work To Be Done Just Stay Strong Strangest Secret Best Opportunity I Will Never Give Up Never Ever Give Up I Never Give Up Never Give Up Hope Passion And Success Hard Work Success Hard Work Comes Success I Will Not Give Up Never Give Up Inspirational Never Give Up Motivational Working So Hard Hard Work And Success Won't Give Up Persistence In Business Perseverance And Hard Work Famous Never Give Up Do N't Give Up Inspirational Stay Strong Feel Like Giving Up Real Estate Motivational I Won't Give Up Working Girl Don't Give Up Hope

Book:Mrs. Warren's Profession

Source: Mrs. Warren's Profession

“When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.”

“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.”

“I want to be all used up when I die.”

Want Inspirational Death Used Dies Dying Limits

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.”

Want Inspirational Children Education Teach Learning Teacher Teaching Childhood Diversity Educational Pursuit Educator Great Teacher Teaching Children Great Education Pursuit Of Knowledge Teaching And Learning Early Childhood Education And Teachers Schools And Education School Education Great Educational Teaching And Education Teachers And Teaching Teaching Education Teacher Student Children Learning Inspirational Teacher Teacher And Student Inspirational Education Great Teaching Knowledge Education Education And Knowledge Children Education Students And Education Student Learning Children And Education Inspirational Educational Knowledge And Learning Knowledge Learning Learning Knowledge Importance Of Education Love Of Learning Teaching Students Inspirational Learning Early Education Teachers Learning From Students Early Childhood Education First Day Of School What Is Education Great Schools Schools And Teachers Inspirational Student Inspirational School

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”

“No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else.”

Ifs Want Use Care Slave Sake Who Cares Fellowship

Book:Pygmalion

Source: Pygmalion

“As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.”

Want Life Long Reason Goal Ambition Satisfaction Dissatisfaction Goals And Ambitions Ambitious Goals

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“That is the injustice of a woman's lot. A woman has to bring up her children; and that means to restrain them, to deny them things they want, to set them tasks, to punish them when they do wrong, to do all the unpleasant things. And then the father, who has nothing to do but pet them and spoil them, comes in when all her work is done and steals their affection from her.”

Want Mean Children Done Father Tasks Injustice Affection Deny Stealing Pet Spoil

Book:Pygmalion and Major Barbara

Source: Pygmalion and Major Barbara

“The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.”

Men Want May Government Human Nature Ordinary Likes Officials Neighbour Anarchism Policemen Anarchist Ordinary Man Government Officials

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is not much harm in a lion. He has no ideals, no religion, no politics, no chivalry, no gentility; in short, no reason for destroying anything that he does not want to eat”

Men Want Doe Reason Safe Ideals Harm No Reason Lions Destroying Cages Chivalry Gentility

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself.”

Ifs Want Wells Conversation Originals Oh Well

Book: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

Source: 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

“The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.”

People Knows Want Knowledge Society Gossip Rumours Behind Your Back Idle Gossip

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for its wants in the order of their importance, and allowing no money to be wasted on whims and luxuries until necessities have been thoroughly served.”

Way Want Has Beens Order Nations Wealth Economy Importance Prosperity Luxury Wealthy Allowing Providing Prosperous No Money Whim Housekeeping Good Housekeeping

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.”

World Want Life Important Success Money Beauty Honor Healthy Weakness Important Things Illness Generosity Sarcastic Ugliness Disgrace Meanness

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.”

Want Desire Economics Endless

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.”

Want Life Is Used Joy Purpose Dies

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.”

Want Love Done Turns Love Is Murder Deeds Columns

Book:The Portable Bernard Shaw

Source: The Portable Bernard Shaw

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

Want Use Humor Funny Fool Foolishness Humourous Fools And Foolishness Murphys Law Use It Or Lose It

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.”

Want Writing Women Grammar Pygmalion

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are my divinity, my madness, my selfishness, my transfiguration and purification. You are my rapscallionly fellow vagabond, my tempter and star. I want you.”

Want Light Inspiration Joy Stars Millions Relationship Sea Madness Fellows Selfishness Folly Divinity I Want You Soulmate Nameless Purification Vagabonds Transfiguration

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.”

Men Want Giving Christian Values Pay He Man Jew Positive Atheism Goods Judaism Want Something

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.”

Want War Fighting Sick Vegetarian Vegan Vegetarianism Vegetarian Diet Gorges

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.”

Ifs Knows Want Different Soul Body Atheism Slave Positive Atheism

Book: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

Source: 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

“When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do, that is law, order, and morals.”

Want Law Order Moral Judgment Persecution

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“When you want to put something into your part that is not in the play, you must ask the author-or some other author-to lead up to the interpolation for you. Never forget that the effect of a line may depend not on its delivery, but on something said earlier in the play, either by somebody else or by yourself, and that if you change it, it may be necessary to change the whole first act as well.”

Ifs Want Firsts Wells May Said Play Whole Asks Lines Forget Effects Depends Theatre Never Forget Delivery

Book:Collected letters: 1926-1950

Source: Collected letters: 1926-1950

“Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.”

Want Opera Making Love Tenors Sopranos Baritones

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.”

People Thinking Want

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.”

Want Animal Food Cooking Culinary Stomach Vegetarianism Graveyard

Author:George Bernard Shaw

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

People Want Madness Mad Sane

Book: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

Source: 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

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

Ifs Want Whole Chance Democracy Capable Population Voters Despotism Benevolent Despots

Book: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

Source: 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

“This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.”

“Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited love. These are services which the weak cannot render to the strong and which the strong will not render to the weak, except when there is also a difference of sex.”

Men Want Made Spirit Girl Strong Sex Differences Lows Weak Unrequited Love Unrequited Strong Will

Book: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

Source: 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

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