George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Passion Quotes

There is only one universal passion fear.

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If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding out that he hates you like poison, you would soon have your eyes opened. There we do unkind things in a kind way: we say bitter things in a sweet voice: we always give our friends chloroform when we tear them to pieces.

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A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows.

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But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things.

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The shot Irishmen will now take their places beside Emmet and the Manchester Martyrs in Ireland, and beside the heroes of Poland and Sérbia and Belgium in Europe; and nothing in heaven or earth can prevent it.

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If parents would only realize how they bore their children.

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To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.

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You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? . . . If it's by a good author, it's a good play, naturally. That stands to reason.

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Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.

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What right has any human being to talk of bringing up a child? You do not bring up a tree or a plant. It brings itself up. You have to give it a fair chance by tilling the soil.

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The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.

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In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

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We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.

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What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

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You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

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I prefer the man who calls his nonsense a mystery to him who who pretends it is a weighed, measured, analyzed fact.

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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.

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It is very doubtful whether man is enough of a political animal to produce a good, sensible, serious and efficient constitution. All the evidence is against it.

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Woman's happiness begins with her first love and ends about then

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A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.

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