George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Life Quotes, Get Well Quotes

You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.

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Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.

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Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

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We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.

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

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The Indian way of life provides the vision of the natural, real way of life. We veil ourselves with unnatural masks. On the face of India are the tender expressions which carry the mark of the Creators hand.

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Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions.

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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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What is life but a series of inspired follies.

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Man is the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

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Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.

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There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.

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People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.

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The politician who once had to learn to flatter Kings has now to learn how to fascinate, amuse, coax, humbug, frighten, or otherwise strike the fancy of the electorate.

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We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now

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When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with. I gave you eternity in a single moment, strength of the mountains in one clasp of your arms, and the volume of all the seas in one impulse of your soul.

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A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.

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Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me.

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I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.

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If parents would only realize how they bore their children.

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