George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Happiness Quotes, Broken Heart Quotes

It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

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I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial rascality with artistic touchiness and pettishness, without being either good business men or fine judges of literature.

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History, sir, will tell lies as usual.

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Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

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The sex illusion is not a fixed quantity: not what mathematicians call a constant. It varies from zero in my wife's case to madness in that of our stepsister.

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A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

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O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.

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Dogmatic toleration is nonsense: I would no more tolerate the teaching of Calvinism to children if I had power to persecute it than the British Raj tolerated suttee in India. Every civilized authority must draw a line between the tolerable and the intolerable.

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Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.

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I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum

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Get married, but never to a man who is home all day.

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Every profession is a conspiracy against the laity.

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When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically... but that does not justify him in pretending...that Christ is, in effect, Mars.

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

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We are compelled by the theory of God's already achieved perfection to make Him a devil as well as a god, because of the existenceof evil. The god of love, if omnipotent and omniscient, must be the god of cancer and epilepsy as well.... Whoever admits that anything living is evil must either believe that God is malignantly capable of creating evil, or else believe that God has made many mistakes in His attempts to make a perfect being.

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Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

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Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination.

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I'm only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller.

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Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.

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A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.

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