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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Thinking Quotes , Years Quotes

[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Men Quotes , Progress Quotes

Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Freedom Quotes , Sarcasm Quotes

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

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Funny Quotes , Humorous Quotes

What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Children Quotes , School Quotes

No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Jesus Quotes , Dragons Quotes

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Life Quotes

Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Sister Quotes , Curiosity Quotes

I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Money Quotes , Hate Quotes

It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Doctors Quotes , Years Quotes

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Inspirational Quotes , Success Quotes

Who are those we love? Only those we do not hate.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Hate Quotes , Emotional Quotes

The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Motivational Quotes , Happiness Quotes

No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Doubt Quotes , Rebellious Quotes

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.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Play Quotes , Sweat Quotes

Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Insane Quotes , Execution Quotes

Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Desire Quotes , Want Quotes

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Inspiration Quotes , Men Quotes

If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Smart Quotes , Shoes Quotes

All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.

5 years ago

Message Copied

Tags : George Bernard Shaw Quotes , Teacher Quotes , Hands Quotes