George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Islands Quotes, Wish Quotes

She is immensely interested in him. She has even secret mischievous moments in which she wishes she could get him alone, on a desert island, away from all ties and with nobody else in the world to consider, and just drag him off his pedestal and see him making love like any common man.

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Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted.

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It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

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A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.

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Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.

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Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that you must get at a man through his own religion and not through yours.

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The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large, but mostly one who, through ignorance or stupidity [or racism or poverty! - Draffan] steals in a way that is not customary. He snatches a loaf from the baker's counter and is promptly run into gaol. Another man snatches bread from the table of hundreds of widows and orphans and similar credulous souls who do not know the ways of company promoters; and, as likely as not, he is run into Parliament.

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Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die.

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The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

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Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.

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It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.

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In an article on Bunyan lately published in the "Contemporary Review" - the only article on the subject worth reading on the subject I ever saw (yes, thank you, I am familiar with Macaulay's patronizing prattle about "The Pilgrim's Progress") etc.

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Make it compulsory for a doctor using a brass plate to have inscribed on it, in addition to the letters indicating his qualifications, the words 'Remember that I too am mortal'.

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

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I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.

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Spend all you have before you die, and do not outlive yourself.

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Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.

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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.

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We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable second-rateness of the people we do know.

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It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.

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