George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Country Quotes, War Quotes

A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent his power of preying on it from passing to a foreigner.

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Hell is not all paved with bad intentions.

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Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.

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The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.

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The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.

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What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.

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Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.

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Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

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You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

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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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The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.

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The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.

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I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing

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If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.

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Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

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Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.

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There is the eternal war between those who are in the world for what they can get out of it and those who are in the world to make it a better place for everybody to live in.

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[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

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I have very carefully studied Islam and the life of its Prophet (PBUH). I have done so both as a student of history and as a critic. And I have come to conclusion that Muhammad (PBUH) was indeed a great man and a deliverer and benefactor of mankind which was till then writhing under the most agonising Pain.

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There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.

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