George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Drama Quotes, Light Quotes

The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in which everyone is married in the last act.

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No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism.

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I also made it quite clear that Socialism means equality of income or nothing, and that under socialism you would not be allowed to be poor. You would be forcibly feed, clothed, lodged, taught, and employed whether you like it or not. If it were discovered that you had not character enough to be worth all this trouble, you might possibly be executed in a kindly manner; but whilst you were permitted to live you would have to live well.

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I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

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The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

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Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.

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I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.

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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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Woman reduces us all to the common denominator.

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Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.

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Power is the faculty or capacity to act, the strength and potency to accomplish something.

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All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions.

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I have found, after a good deal of consideration, that the best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for Him here.

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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

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Hell is not all paved with bad intentions.

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A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.

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If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.

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Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.

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You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.

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It is clear that a novel cannot be too bad to be worth publishing. . . . It certainly is possible for a novel to be too good to be worth publishing.

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