George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Dream Quotes

I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.

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Some persons, by hating vice too much, come to love men too little. Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred is the cowards revenge for being intimidated.

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The sound body is the product of the sound mind.

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A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.

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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

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We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

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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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Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State).

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Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.

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Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.

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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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There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.

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All progress means war with society.

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To a professional critic (I have been one myself) theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is paid to endure in the sweat of his brow; and the sooner it is over, the better.

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

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Perhaps I had better inform my Protestant readers that the famous Dogma of Papal Infallibility is by far the most modest pretension of the kind in existence. Compared with our infallible democracies, our infallible medical councils, our infallible astronomers, our infallible judges, and our infallible parliaments, the Pope is on his knees in the dust confessing his ignorance before the throne of God, asking only that as to certain historical matters on which he has clearly more sources of information open to him than anyone else his decision shall be taken as final.

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I never accepted a knighthood because to me, is honour enough?

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Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby

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

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Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.

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