George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Praying Quotes, Hell Quotes

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.

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Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.

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Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.

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Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

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An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

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A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot confess themcannot but deny them passionately.

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I don't know what to say about this book. The experience on which it is founded is so extraordinary, that an honest record of it should be preserved . . . But it would have driven me mad; and I am not sure that the author came out of it without a slight derangement.

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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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The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.

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The practical question, then, is what to do with the children. Tolerate them at home we will not. Let them run loose in the streets we dare not until our streets become safe places for children, which, to our utter shame, they are not at present, though they can hardly be worse than some homes and some schools.

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What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

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This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby.

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As you say, I am honoured and famous and rich. But as I have to do all the hard work, and suffer an increasing multitude of fools gladly, it does not feel any better than being reviled, infamous and poor, as I used to be.

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There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.

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My reputation grows with every failure.

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No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it.

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Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. . . . It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.

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I do not, like the Fundamentalists, believe that creation stopped six thousand years ago after a week of hard work. Creation is going on all the time.

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I never climbed any ladder: I have achieved eminence by sheer gravitation.

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The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.

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