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Quotes from Major Barbara — George Bernard Shaw

1856–1950 Ireland

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I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

Major Barbara (1905)

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

Major Barbara (1905)

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

Major Barbara (1905)

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier: the manners and habits of a duke would cost a city clerk his situation.

Major Barbara (1905)

He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

Major Barbara (1905)

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.

Major Barbara (1905)

You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.

Major Barbara (1905)

Undershaft: My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

Major Barbara (1905)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George Bernard Shaw (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.