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HIGGINS [aggrieved] Do you mean that my language is improper?MRS HIGGINS. No, dearest: it would be quite proper - say on a canal barge...

HIGGINS [aggrieved] Do you mean that my language is improper?MRS HIGGINS. No, dearest: it would be quite proper – say on a canal barge…
– George Bernard Shaw

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  1. HIGGINS [aggrieved] Do you mean that my language is improper?MRS HIGGINS. No, dearest: it would be quite proper – say on a canal barge… – George Bernard Shaw
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  3. HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me. – George Bernard Shaw
  4. My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity. – George Bernard Shaw
  5. England and America are two countries separated by the same language. – George Bernard Shaw
  6. Music is the language of the heart, the language of the soul, the language of nature and the language of the universe. – Debasish Mridha
  7. This is my love line…. It says an incredibly sexy, but totally infuriating redheaded woman with barge into my life and drive me insane. – Denise Grover Swank
  8. one’s rules of propriety make one thirst for the improper. – Mohsin Hamid
  9. What does a guy say to that? What does an inexperienced guy say to a beautiful, smart, proper girl who’s not supposed to say things like that? – SA Tawks
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  11. Science never solves a problem without creating ten more – George Bernard Shaw
  12. Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself. – George Bernard Shaw
  13. There is always danger for those who are afraid. – George Bernard Shaw
  14. If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you’ll find you’ve done it. – George Bernard Shaw
  15. A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic. – George Bernard Shaw
  16. Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything. – George Bernard Shaw
  17. Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything. – George Bernard Shaw
  18. [Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time. – George Bernard Shaw
  19. You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. – George Bernard Shaw
  20. Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can’t sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can’t sleep with the window open. – George Bernard Shaw
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  23. Lack of money is the root of all evil. – George Bernard Shaw
  24. We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us! – George Bernard Shaw
  25. Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t! – George Bernard Shaw
  26. The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years. – George Bernard Shaw
  27. Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will. – George Bernard Shaw
  28. No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. – George Bernard Shaw
  29. Gentle Jesus, meek and mild’ is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels. – George Bernard Shaw
  30. Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience. – George Bernard Shaw
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  32. If we women were particular about men’s characters, we should never get married at all. – George Bernard Shaw
  33. At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world. – George Bernard Shaw
  34. I’m not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead – ahead of myself as well as you. – George Bernard Shaw
  35. The most distinguished persons become more revolutionary as they grow older. – George Bernard Shaw
  36. A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself. – George Bernard Shaw
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  38. Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn’t really hurt. – George Bernard Shaw
  39. What man really wishes to do he will find a means of doing. – George Bernard Shaw
  40. How can she? She’s incapable of understanding anything. Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it? – George Bernard Shaw

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