George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Tired Quotes, People Quotes

People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.

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I never accepted a knighthood because to me, is honour enough?

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Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing -a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.

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The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.

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Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.

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Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.

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The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

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You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And, with due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.

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An author who gives a manager or publisher any rights in his work except those immediately and specifically required for its publication or performance is for business purposes an imbecile.

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Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft

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Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

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Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.

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Your wits can't thicken in that soft moist air, on those white springy roads, in those misty rushes and brown bogs, on those hillsides of granite rocks and magenta heather. You've no such colours in the sky, no such lure in the distances, no such sadness in the evenings. Oh the dreaming! the dreaming! the torturing, heart-scalding, never satisfying dreaming, dreaming, dreaming, dreaming!

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Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.

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Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

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Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

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Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.

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Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?

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Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.

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I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

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