George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
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It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.
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A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.
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The Englishmen is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.
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In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
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What's the use of money if you have to earn it.
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Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat.
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If we have come to think that the nursery and the kitchen are the natural sphere of a woman, we have done so exactly as English children come to think that a cage is the natural sphere of a parrot: because they have never seen one anywhere else.
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It seems as though every time you learn something new you have to give up something.
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You see, lots of the real people can't do it at all: they're such fools that they think style comes by nature to people in their position; and so they never learn. There's always something professional about doing a thing superlatively well.
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Without danger I cannot be great. That is how I pay for Abel's blood. Danger and fear follow my steps everywhere. Without them courage would have no sense. And it is courage, courage, courage that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.
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All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
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Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers.
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The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.
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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
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The utmost I can bear for myself in my best days is that I was one of the hundred best playwrights in the world, which is hardly a supreme distinction.
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When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of 'Orthodoxy, True and False' and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.
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Stop being Jews and start being human beings.
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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
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Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.
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The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak would finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.
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We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.
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Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.