George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Life Quotes, Marriage Quotes

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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In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all things but the beginning ofa real civilization.

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If you cannot have what you believe in you must believe in what you have.

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For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window.

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If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.

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Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself.

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We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.

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All government is cruel; for nothing is so cruel as impunity.

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We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we undertake a new world as catastrophic Utopians, and wreck our civilization in our hurry to mend it.

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God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.

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Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

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All evolution in thought and conduct must at first appear as heresy and misconduct.

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The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right to live in it ... If people are fit to live, let them live under decent human conditions. If they are not fit to live, kill them in a decent human way. Is it any wonder that some of us are driven to prescribe the lethal chamber as the solution for the hard cases which are at present made the excuse for dragging all the other cases down to their level, and the only solution that will create a sense of full social responsibility in modern populations?

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The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy.

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A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.

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My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

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The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.

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Without danger I cannot be great. That is how I pay for Abel's blood. Danger and fear follow my steps everywhere. Without them courage would have no sense. And it is courage, courage, courage that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.

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It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

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Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

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