George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Life Quotes, Success Quotes

Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.

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Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

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[...] any fool can make a discovery. Every baby has to discover more in the first years of its life than Roger Bacon ever discovered in his laboratory.

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Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find? That the stables are the real centre of the household.

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Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.

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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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Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

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A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.

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For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.

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Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

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We all have--to put it as nicely as I can--our lower centres and our higher centres. Our lower centres act: they act with terriblepower that sometimes destroys us; but they don't talk.... Since the war the lower centres have become vocal. And the effect is that of an earthquake. For they speak truths that have never been spoken before--truths that the makers of our domestic institutions have tried to ignore.

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Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!

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Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.

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I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.

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Indifference is the essence of inhumanity.

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Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.

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No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

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Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.

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It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.

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