George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Grieving Quotes

Heartbreak is life educating us.

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The body was the slave of the vortex; but the slave has become the master; and we must free ourselves from that tyranny. It is this stuff [ indicating her body ], this flesh and blood and bone and all the rest of it, that is intolerable. Even prehistoric man dreamed of what he called an astral body, and asked who would deliver him from the body of this death.

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If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.

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Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.

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A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.

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The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.

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You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.

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If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.

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Altogether too many sheep

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That older and greater church to which I belong: the church where the oftener you laugh the better, because by laughter only can you destroy evil without malice

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In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.

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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

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Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst.

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The minorities are sometimes right. The majorities never.

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If you go to Heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy yourself there.

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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

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The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

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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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You can feel nothing but a torment, and believe nothing but a lie. You will not raise your head to look at all the miracles of life that surround you; but you will run ten miles to see a fight or a death.

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The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.

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