George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Thinking Quotes, Years Quotes

It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and that the impulses she had so carefully struggled with and stifled for the sake of keeping well with society, were precisely those by which alone she could have come into any sort of sincere human contact.

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History, sir, will tell lies as usual.

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If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad.

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I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

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Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

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The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.

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Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.

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Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

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In the Middle Ages people believed that the earth was flat, for which they had at least the evidence of their senses: we believe it to be round, not because as many as 1 percent of us could give physical reasons for so quaint a belief, but because modern science has convinced us that nothing that is obvious is true, and that everything that is magical, improbable, extraordinary, gigantic, microscopic, heartless, or outrageous is scientific.

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The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.

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A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future.

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When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore.

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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no man can teach himself what it soundslike.It isimpossible foran Englishmanto openhis mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

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You can be a thorough-going Neo-Darwinian without imagination, metaphysics, poetry, conscience, or decency. For 'Natural Selection' has no moral significance: it deals with that part of evolution which has no purpose, no intelligence, and might more appropriately be called accidental selection, or better still, Unnatural Selection, since nothing is more unnatural than an accident. If it could be proved that the whole universe had been produced by such Selection, only fools and rascals could bear to live.

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There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.

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Patriotism is a word which always commemorates a robbery.

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Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

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As long as you don't fly openly in the face of society, society doesn't ask any inconvenient questions; and it makes precious short work of the cads who do. There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

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Marry Ann; and at the end of a week you'll find no more inspiration in her than in a plate of muffins.

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