George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Marriage Quotes, Girl Quotes

What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man's fancy and get the benefit of his money by marrying him?--as if a marriage ceremony could make any difference in the right or wrong of the thing!

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The best way to get your point across is to entertain.

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Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

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A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

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

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Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty.

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The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.

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Any belief worth having must survive doubt

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The sex illusion is not a fixed quantity: not what mathematicians call a constant. It varies from zero in my wife's case to madness in that of our stepsister.

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The devil can quote Shakespeare for his own purpose.

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Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.

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Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.

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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.

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In my dreams is a country where the State is the Church and the Church the people: three in one and one in three. It is a commonwealth in which work is play and play is life: three in one and one in three. It is a temple in which the priest is the worshiper and the worshiper the worshipped: three in one and one in three. It is a godhead in which all life is human and all humanity divine: three in one and one in three.

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An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles.

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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

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An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

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Marriage is the most licentious of human institutions.

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You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.

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