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“The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.”

Act IV
1890s, The Philanderer (1893)

“All professions are conspiracies against the laity.”

Act I
1910s, The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)

“Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.”

#88
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

“Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use.”

Franklyn, in Pt. II : The Gospel of the Brothers Barnabas
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)

“To understand a saint, you must hear the devil's advocate; and the same is true of the artist.”

The Sanity of Art: An Exposure of the Current Nonsense about Artists being Degenerate (1908)
1900s

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

Eve to Cain, in Pt. I, Act II
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)

“Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.”

As quoted in Bernard Shaw : The Lure of Fantasy (1991) by Michael Holroyd
1940s and later

“The Bible is most dangerous book ever written on earth, keep it under lock and key.”

From Why You Should Never be a Christian (1987) by Ishaq 'Kunle Sanni and ‎Dawood Ayodele Amoo.
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