George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Country Quotes, Motherhood Quotes

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman's work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it.

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The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.

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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.

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I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.

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Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does.

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I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.

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Paradoxes are the only truths.

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If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.

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Get out of my way; for I won't stop for you.

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It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

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Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.

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NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.

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Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.

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The ability to make witty observations is commonly refered to as "cynism" by people who lack it.

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Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.

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Hell is not all paved with bad intentions.

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The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.

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It's a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter's husband. The man is at home all day, like a damned soul in hell.

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We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.

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To disbelieve in marriage is easy: to love a married woman is easy; but to betray a comrade, to be disloyal to a host, to break the covenant of bread and salt, is impossible.

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