George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Pygmalion Quotes, Heaven Quotes

The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no thirdclass carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

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When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with. I gave you eternity in a single moment, strength of the mountains in one clasp of your arms, and the volume of all the seas in one impulse of your soul.

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Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders.

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I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in less time that it takes me to buy a German Dictionary

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

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It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

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Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.

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Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.

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It's usually pointed out that women are not fit for political power, and ought not to be trusted with a vote because they are politically ignorant, socially prejudiced, narrow-minded, and selfish. True enough, but precisely the same is true of men!

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Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation.

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Man is the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

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Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.

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What a heartbreaking job it is trying to combine authors for their own protection... the first lesson I learned was that when you take the field for the authors you will be safer without a breastplate than without a backplate.

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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

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My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.

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The 100% American is 99% idiot.

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The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.

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A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having 'a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures.' Perhaps dread would have been nearer the mark than dislike; for man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

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Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

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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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