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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
George Bernard Shaw -
Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace.
George Bernard Shaw
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Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
George Bernard Shaw -
To understand a saint, you must hear the devil's advocate; and the same is true of the artist.
George Bernard Shaw -
The body was the slave of the vortex; but the slave has become the master; and we must free ourselves from that tyranny. It is this stuff indicating her body, this flesh and blood and bone and all the rest of it, that is intolerable. Even prehistoric man dreamed of what he called an astral body, and asked who would deliver him from the body of this death.
George Bernard Shaw -
My method of getting a play across the footlights is like a revolver shooting: every line has a bullet in it and comes with an explosion.
George Bernard Shaw -
Those who understand evil pardon it.
George Bernard Shaw -
If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong; but if I let the leg go, nobody can ever prove that it would not have mortified had I been obstinate. Operation is therefore the safe side for the surgeon as well as the lucrative side.
George Bernard Shaw
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I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.
George Bernard Shaw -
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
George Bernard Shaw -
I am very subtle; but Man is deeper in his thought than I am. The woman knows that there is no such thing as nothing: the man knows that there is no such day as tomorrow. I do well to worship them.
George Bernard Shaw -
If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.
George Bernard Shaw -
A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.
George Bernard Shaw -
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
George Bernard Shaw
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A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.
George Bernard Shaw -
The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.
George Bernard Shaw -
Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
George Bernard Shaw -
No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.
George Bernard Shaw -
I was told that my diet was so poor that I could not repair the bones that were broken and operated on. So I have just had an Xradiograph taken; and lo! perfectly mended solid bone so beautifully white that I have left instructions that, if I die, a glove stretcher is to be made of me and sent to you as a souvenir...
George Bernard Shaw -
Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.
George Bernard Shaw
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No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
George Bernard Shaw -
Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her.
George Bernard Shaw -
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
George Bernard Shaw -
Defeatism is the wretchedest of policies.
George Bernard Shaw