George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Praying Quotes, Hell Quotes

Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

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The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.

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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

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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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I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit

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Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.

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An Irishman's imagination never lets him alone, never convinces him, never satisfies him; but it makes him that he can't face reality nor deal with it nor handle it nor conquer it: he can only sneer at them that do, and be 'agreeable to strangers', like a good-for-nothing woman on the streets.

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Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.

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History, sir, will tell lies as usual.

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I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

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No Englishman is ever fairly beaten

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Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either law or religion.

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Religion is a good invention in times of stress.

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Nothing can save us from a perpetual headlong fall into a bottomless abyss but a solid footing of dogma; and we no sooner agree to that than we find that the only trustworthy dogma is that there is no dogma.

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Without danger I cannot be great. That is how I pay for Abel's blood. Danger and fear follow my steps everywhere. Without them courage would have no sense. And it is courage, courage, courage that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor.

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You are all fundamentalists with a top dressing of science. That is why you are the stupidest of conservatives and reactionists in politics and the most bigoted of obstructionists in science itself. When it comes to getting a move on you are all of the same opinion: stop it, flog it, hang it, dynamite it, stamp it out.

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We are members one of another; so that you cannot injure or help your neighbor without injuring or helping yourself.

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[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

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

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It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman.

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