George Bernard Shaw Quotes About Home
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Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
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I wish to boast that Pygmalion has been an extremely successful play all over Europe and North America as well as at home. It is so intensely and deliberately didactic, and its subject is esteemed so dry, that I delight in throwing it at the heads of the wiseacres who repeat the parrot cry that art should never be didactic. It goes to prove my contention that art should never be anything else.
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In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.
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The apparent multiplication of gods is bewildering at the first glance, but you soon discover that they are the same GOD. There is always one uttermost God who defies personification. This makes Hinduism the most tolerant religion in the world, because its one transcendent God includes all possible gods. In fact Hinduism is so elastic and so subtle that the most profound Methodist, and crudest idolater, are equally at home with it.
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My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.
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It's a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter's husband. The man is at home all day, like a damned soul in hell.
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Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.
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The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.
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The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
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The practical question, then, is what to do with the children. Tolerate them at home we will not. Let them run loose in the streets we dare not until our streets become safe places for children, which, to our utter shame, they are not at present, though they can hardly be worse than some homes and some schools.
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When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.
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O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.
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Get married, but never to a man who is home all day.
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Men trifle with their business and their politics but never trifle with their games. It brings truth home to them. They cannot pretend they have won when they have lost nor that they had a magnificent drive when they foozled it. The Englishman is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.
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I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
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