George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

- George Bernard Shaw

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience!

- George Bernard Shaw

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.

- George Bernard Shaw

A doctor’s reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.

- George Bernard Shaw

Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.

- George Bernard Shaw

Fashions are induced epidemics.

- George Bernard Shaw

An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

- George Bernard Shaw

As 99 per cent of English authors and 100 per cent of American ones [authors] are just such imbeciles, managers and publishers make a practice of asking for every right the author possesses.

- George Bernard Shaw

The fact is that the intrinsic worth of the book, play or whatever the author is trying to sell is the least, last factor in the the whole transaction.

- George Bernard Shaw

I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial rascality with artistic touchiness and pettishness, without being either good business men or fine judges of literature.

- George Bernard Shaw