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“Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing.”

George Bernard Shaw

Preface
1900s, Getting Married (1908)

Men , Sense

“Ah-ah-ah-ah-ow-ow-oo-oo!!! I ain't dirty: I washed me face and hands afore I come, I did!”

George Bernard Shaw

Act II
1910s, Pygmalion (1912)

“The Nazi movement is in many respects one which has my warmest sympathy.”

George Bernard Shaw

As Quoted in London Morning Post, (Dec. 3, 1925)
1920s

“Decency is Indecency’s Conspiracy of Silence.”

George Bernard Shaw

#126
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

Silence

“God help England if she had no Scots to think for her!”

George Bernard Shaw The Apple Cart

The Apple Cart (1928), Act II
1920s

God , Thinking , Help

“Self-denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.”

George Bernard Shaw

#87
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

“When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.”

George Bernard Shaw

Ellie Dunn, Act II
1910s, Heartbreak House (1919)

Peace , Heart , Happiness

“Those who understand evil pardon it.”

George Bernard Shaw

#167
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

Understanding , Evil

“When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.”

George Bernard Shaw

The He-Ancient, in Pt. V
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)

“Even a vortex is a vortex in something. You can't have a whirlpool without water; and you can't have a vortex without gas, or molecules or atoms or ions or electrons or something, not nothing.”

George Bernard Shaw

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

Water

“The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.”

George Bernard Shaw Fanny's First Play

Fanny's First Play, Preface (1911)
1910s

Cars

“You're not a man, you're a machine.”

George Bernard Shaw Arms and the Man

Arms and the Man, Act III (1898)
1890s

“I exclude the hypothesis of complete originality on [Charles] Lever's part, because a man can no more be completely original in that sense than a tree can grow out of air.”

George Bernard Shaw

Preface
1900s, Major Barbara (1905)

Sense , Tree , Parting

“Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus.”

George Bernard Shaw

Preface to London music in 1888-89 as heard by Corno di Bassetto http://books.google.com/books?id=3PBP0ln1gLgC (1937)
1940s and later

Parting

“Some of the things Mussolini has done, and some that he is threatening to do go further in the direction of Socialism than the English Labour Party could yet venture if they were in power.”

George Bernard Shaw

Letter from G. Bernard Shaw to a friend, “Bernard Shaw's Defence of Mussolini,” (Feb, 7, 1927)
1920s

“I know Miss Warren is a great devotee of the Gospel of Getting On.”

George Bernard Shaw

Praed, Act IV
1890s, Mrs. Warren's Profession (1893)

“It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.”

George Bernard Shaw

Preface
1910s, Pygmalion (1912)

Hate

“It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.”

George Bernard Shaw

Preface
1910s, Misalliance (1910)

“There are some men who are considered quite ugly, but who are more remarkable than pretty people. You often see that in artists.”

George Bernard Shaw

1900s, Love Among the Artists (1900)

Men , People