George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Writing Quotes, Disease Quotes

As I write, there is a craze for what is called psychoanalysis, or the cure of diseases by explaining to the patient what is the matter with him: an excellent plan if you happen to know what is the matter with him, especially when the explanation is that there is nothing the matter with him.

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If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.

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You have set up in New York Harbor a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete that monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of hell: All hope abandon ye who enter here.

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A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.

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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

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The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.

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While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

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In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.

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The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

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An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.

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I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power and the glory. I say to them You are supreme: exercise your power. They say, That's right: tell us what to do; and I tell them. I say Exercise our vote intelligently by voting for me. And they do. That's democracy; and a splendid thing it is too for putting the right men in the right place.

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We must reform society before we can reform ourselves.

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When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

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We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts.

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A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.

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Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major.

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The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

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People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them

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Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

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Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.

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