George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Pursuit Quotes

Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.

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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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Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it...

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If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.

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

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It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.

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Like fingerprints, all marriages are different.

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The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.

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

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My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths.

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Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.

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What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.

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Hell is not all paved with bad intentions.

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Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.

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A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often found that he is absentminded andobserves much less than other people.... Why is it that the public have such an exaggerated respect for him--after he is dead? The reason is that the man of genius understands the importance of the few things he sees.

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If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat

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If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.

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Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.

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When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport, we still snatch at every excuse for declaring individuals outside the protection of law and torturing them to our hearts content.

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A dinner! How horrible! I am to be made the pretext for killing all those wretched animals and birds, and fish! Thank you for nothing. Now if it were to be a fast instead of a feast; say a solemn three days' abstention from corpses in my honour, I could at least pretend to believe that it was disinterested. Blood sacrifices are not in my line

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