George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Humorous Quotes, Profound Quotes

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

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The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.

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If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them.

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Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

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Never repeat old grievances.

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I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.

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Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men.

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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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Deep knowledge is not knowledge of the thing itself, but knowledge of a thing like the thing. Then, you gain not one knowledge, but two knowledges. Of the thing. And of the original thing with is like the thing. Which is the barbarism of the privileged class.

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If ever I utter an oath again may my soul be blasted to eternal damnation!

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Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.

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The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.

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A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

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Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.

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The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.

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We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.

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I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today. ... I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it the much-needed peace and happiness.

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[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.

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If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.

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