George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Life Quotes, Success Quotes

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 test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.

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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

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To a professional critic (I have been one myself) theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is paid to endure in the sweat of his brow; and the sooner it is over, the better.

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Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination.

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I appeal to the chemists to discover a humane gas that will kill instantly and painlessly. In short- a gentlemanly gas deadly by all means, but humane, not cruel.

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People get tired of everything, and of nothing sooner than of what they most like.

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No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.

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I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

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Sexually,Woman is Nature's contrivance for perpetuating its highest achievement.

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Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.

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When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.

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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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Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.

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When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.

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Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.

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English is the easiest language to speak badly.

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Hell is full of musical amateurs.

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A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.

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The poor silly-clever Irishman takes off his hat to God's Englishman.

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