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George Bernard Shaw

Feelings
He who has never hoped can never despair.
3.3 · 8 votes · 6 reads
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Art and Culture
Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.
4.3 · 59 votes · 35 reads
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Society
Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.
3.5 · 37 votes · 133 reads
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Various
How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.
3.5 · 10 votes · 20 reads
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Art and Culture
How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
4.4 · 27 votes · 144 reads
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Nature
Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
3.3 · 11 votes · 133 reads
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Thought and Reason
I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
4.2 · 6 votes · 31 reads
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Thought and Reason
I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.
3.7 · 54 votes · 131 reads
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Society
I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
3.5 · 54 votes · 180 reads
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Time
I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.
5.0 · 45 votes · 140 reads
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Society
I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
4.0 · 61 votes · 182 reads
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Virtues
I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
3.8 · 22 votes · 183 reads
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Thought and Reason
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
4.5 · 58 votes · 148 reads
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Countries
I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.
3.5 · 30 votes · 110 reads
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Thought and Reason
I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.
3.3 · 52 votes · 63 reads
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Nature
I want to be all used up when I die.
4.9 · 37 votes · 49 reads
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Society
I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.
3.7 · 39 votes · 70 reads
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Various
I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.
3.4 · 33 votes · 34 reads
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Society
I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler.
4.3 · 14 votes · 77 reads
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Society
If all the economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
4.4 · 50 votes · 186 reads
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Virtues
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience!
4.8 · 27 votes · 42 reads
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Virtues
If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.
3.1 · 46 votes · 32 reads
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Nature
If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.
4.4 · 6 votes · 26 reads
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Various
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not an example.
3.0 · 34 votes · 174 reads
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Feelings
If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it.
4.8 · 41 votes · 22 reads
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Virtues
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will.
3.3 · 18 votes · 151 reads
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Society
In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
4.3 · 38 votes · 21 reads
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Art and Culture
In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.
3.9 · 30 votes · 195 reads
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Government and Politics
In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine.
4.8 · 63 votes · 174 reads
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Feelings
In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
4.6 · 19 votes · 11 reads
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Society
It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious
3.9 · 63 votes · 177 reads
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Feelings
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.
3.7 · 57 votes · 0 reads
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Society
It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.
3.9 · 11 votes · 92 reads
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Time
It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
5.0 · 13 votes · 10 reads
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Virtues
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
4.2 · 6 votes · 194 reads
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Thought and Reason
It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.
3.4 · 46 votes · 56 reads
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Time
It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
4.0 · 57 votes · 140 reads
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Society
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
3.9 · 43 votes · 50 reads
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Society
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
3.1 · 46 votes · 106 reads
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Feelings
Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of lif
5.0 · 62 votes · 54 reads
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