George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Silly Quotes, Thinking Quotes

If you do things merely because you think some other fool expects you to do them, and he expects you to do them because he thinks you expect him to expect you to do them, it will end in everybody doing what nobody wants to do, which is in my opinion a silly state of things.

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Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing.

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It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and that the impulses she had so carefully struggled with and stifled for the sake of keeping well with society, were precisely those by which alone she could have come into any sort of sincere human contact.

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My only policy is to profess evil and do good.

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You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.

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I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.

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Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.

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The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

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A critic is one who leaves no turn unstoned.

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I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

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Hell is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

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Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'

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Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat.

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All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.

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Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.

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A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he is morally acting on the highest principles.

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Reformers have the idea that change can be achieved by brute sanity.

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Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.

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Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results.

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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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