George Bernard Shaw Quotes, People Quotes, Weakness Quotes

Even to this day it is easier than it ought to be for me to get a rise out of an American by telling him something about himself which is equally true about every human being on the face of the globe. He at once resents this as a disparagement and an assertion on my part that people in other parts of the globe are not like that, and are loftily superior to such weaknesses.

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Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

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Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited love. These are services which the weak cannot render to the strong and which the strong will not render to the weak, except when there is also a difference of sex.

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People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.

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The only power a god can teach is the power of doing without happiness.

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Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.

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What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.

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Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence.

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What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.

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Marry Ann; and at the end of a week you'll find no more inspiration in her than in a plate of muffins.

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A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.

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All classes in proportion to their lack of travel and familiarity with foreign literature are bellicose, prejudiced against foreigners, fond of fighting as a cruel sport - in short, dog-like in their notions of foreign policy.

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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

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Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that men never learn anything from history.

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I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everybody there looks an original. All other nations are obviously mass produced.

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If you don't begin to be a revolutionist at the age of twenty, then at fifty you will be a most impossible old fossil. If you area red revolutionary at the age of twenty, you have some chance of being up-to-date when you are forty!

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Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

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The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men.

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If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.

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Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.

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