George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Blessed Quotes, Men Quotes

If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor.... Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor!

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The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.

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If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.

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Marriage is to me apostasy, profanation of the sanctuary of my soul, violation of my manhood, sale of my birthright, shameful surrender, ignominious capitulation, acceptance of defeat.

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The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.

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No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.

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While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: "To ----, with esteem, George Bernard Shaw." He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: "With renewed esteem, George Bernard Shaw.

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Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

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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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Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me.

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Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

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Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.

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What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

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The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.

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

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Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.

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You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.

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If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

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I wish people would stop talking about my birthday.

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