George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Heart Quotes, Men Quotes

What is really important in Man is the part of him that we do not understand. Of much of it we are not even conscious, just as we are not normally conscious of keeping up our circulation by our heart-pump, though if we neglect it we die.

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

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What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

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When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, "The one I feed the most."

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Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop.

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Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.

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

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The body was the slave of the vortex; but the slave has become the master; and we must free ourselves from that tyranny. It is this stuff [ indicating her body ], this flesh and blood and bone and all the rest of it, that is intolerable. Even prehistoric man dreamed of what he called an astral body, and asked who would deliver him from the body of this death.

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We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great many people whom we at present kill. We should have to get rid of all ideas about capital punishment.

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All problems are finally scientific problems.

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Youth is just wasted on young people.

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

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Only in the problem play is there any real drama, because drama is no mere setting up of the camera to nature: it is the presentation in parable of the conflict between Man's will and his environment: in a word, of problem.

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The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.

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When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.

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I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil ; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.

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Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.

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All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

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If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.

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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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