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“The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.”

George Bernard Shaw

Pt. V
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)

“Beware of the man whose god is in the skies.”

George Bernard Shaw

#83
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

“Therefore my tax-payer, resign yourself to this: that we may fight bravely, fight hard, fight long, fight cunningly, fight recklessly, fight in a hundred and fifty ways, but we cannot fight cheaply.”

George Bernard Shaw

The Daily Chronicle on the 7 March 1917 https://www.rte.ie/centuryireland/index.php/articles/george-bernard-shaw-joyriding-on-the-front. <br class="br">1910s, The Technique of War (1917)

“It's well to be off with the Old Woman before you're on with the New.”

George Bernard Shaw

Act II
1890s, The Philanderer (1893)

“The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.”

George Bernard Shaw

#108
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

“Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.”

George Bernard Shaw

#125
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

“A: Would you sleep with me for $1,000,000?”

George Bernard Shaw

Misattributed

“The first prison I ever saw had inscribed on it CEASE TO DO EVIL: LEARN TO DO WELL; but as the inscription was on the outside, the prisoners could not read it.”

George Bernard Shaw

Preface to English Prisons Under Local Government http://books.google.com/books?id=81YwAAAAYAAJ by Sydney and Beatrice Webb (1922) <br class="br">1940s and later

“The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.”

George Bernard Shaw

"The Play of Ideas", New Statesman (6 May 1950)
1940s and later