George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Hard Work Quotes, Suffering Quotes

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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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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New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.

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Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

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Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication.

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People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing that criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading. It is the capacity for making good or bad art a personal matter that makes a man a critic.

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A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

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Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.

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If there is anything I hate in a woman, it's want of character.

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

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If you go to Heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy yourself there.

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I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

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To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.

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What is life but a series of inspired follies.

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The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.

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God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.

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All great truths begin as blasphemies.

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While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: "To ----, with esteem, George Bernard Shaw." He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: "With renewed esteem, George Bernard Shaw.

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There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.

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