George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Selfish Quotes, Work Quotes

Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

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As long as you don't fly openly in the face of society, society doesn't ask any inconvenient questions; and it makes precious short work of the cads who do. There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

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Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use.

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

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No community has ever yet passed beyond the initial phases in which its pugnacity and fanaticism enabled it to found a nation, and its cupidity to establish and develop a commercial civilization.

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It seems as though every time you learn something new you have to give up something.

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Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.

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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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Even a vortex is a vortex in something. You can't have a whirlpool without water; and you can't have a vortex without gas, or molecules or atoms or ions or electrons or something, not nothing.

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War does not decide who is right but who is left.

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Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life is greater than death, and hope than despair.

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There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.

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No age or condition is without its heroes . The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon , the least confused thinker its Socrates , the least commonplace poet its Shakespeare .

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Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.

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From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.

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Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.

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Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that

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This is the true joy in life: Being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. 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 what I can. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

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Our laws make law impossible; our liberties destroy all freedom; our property is organized robbery; our morality an impudent hypocrisy; our wisdom is administered by inexperienced or mal-experienced dupes; our power wielded by cowards and weaklings; and our honour false in all its points. I am an enemy of the existing order for good reasons

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It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.

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