George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Inspirational Quotes, Life Quotes

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

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This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby.

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My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

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Woman reduces us all to the common denominator.

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The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.

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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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It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.

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When we know what God is, we shall be gods ourselves.

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I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

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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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Ye poor posterity, think not that ye are the first. Other fools before ye have seen the sun rise and set, and the moon change her shape and her hour. As they were so ye are; and yet not so great; for the pyramids my people built stand to this day; whilst the dustheaps on which ye slave, and which ye call empires, scatter in the wind even as ye pile your dead sons' bodies on them to make yet more dust.

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Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

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No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.

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He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

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You don't expect me to know what to say about a play when I don't know who the author is, do you? . . . If it's by a good author, it's a good play, naturally. That stands to reason.

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Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop.

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Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

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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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It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls.

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Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?

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