| Respectfully Quoted: A Dictionary of Quotations. 1989. |
| NUMBER: | 472 |
| AUTHOR: | George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950) |
| QUOTATION: | Majesty: when a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty. |
| ATTRIBUTION: | GEORGE BERNARD SHAW, Caesar and Cleopatra, act III, in Selected Plays with Prefaces, vol. 3, p. 418 (1948). Apollodorus is speaking to Cleopatra. |
| SUBJECTS: | Duty |
| BIOGRAPHY: | Columbia Encyclopedia |
| WORKS: | George Bernard Shaw Collection |
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