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We all go about longing for love: it is the first need of our natures, the loudest cry of our hearts. (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
In a living society every day is a day of judgment; and its recognition as such is not the end of all things but the beginning ofa real civilization. (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
Without danger I cannot be great. That is how I pay for Abel’s blood. Danger and fear follow my steps everywhere. Without them courage would have no sense. And it is courage, courage, courage that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
I really don’t think I could consent to go to Heaven if I thought there were no animals there (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
I have studied him - the wonderful man - and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be called the saviour of humanity. (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me to possess that assimilating capacity to the changing phase of existence which can make itself appeal to every age. I have studied him - the wonderful man and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ, he must be called the Savior of Humanity. (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won’t listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby. (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
[...] any fool can make a discovery. Every baby has to discover more in the first years of its life than Roger Bacon ever discovered in his laboratory. (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls. (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
Make me a beautiful word for doing things tomorrow; for that surely is a great and blessed invention. (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can’t. (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation. (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the style of Italian opera. (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
Belief in God meant belief in the old tribal idol called Jehovah; and I would not pretend I did not know whether it existed or not. (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else. (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
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. (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.... (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
A statesman who confines himself to popular legislation - or, for the matter of that, a playwright who confines himself to popular plays - is like a blind man’s dog who goes wherever the blind man pulls him, on the ground that both of them want to go to the same place. (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
The medical profession (is) a conspiracy to hide its own shortcomings. No doubt the same may be said of all professions. They are all conspiracies against the laity... (U)ntil there is a practicable alternative to blind trust in the doctor, the truth about the doctor is so terrible that we dare not face it. (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
The Old Testament God is a person with body parts and passions. The Church of England God has neither body, parts nor passions, and is therefore not a person. (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
It is a woman’s business to get married as soon as possible, and a man’sto keep unmarried as long as he can. (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
I am highly susceptible to the force of all truly religious music, especially to the music of my own church, the church of Shelley, Michelangelo, and Beethoven. (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
Creation is a miracle of daily recurrence. ‘A miracle a minute’ would not be a bad slogan for God. (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
I love little children too but I don’t cut off their heads and stick them in vases (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
You accepted Allah or you had your throat cut by someone who did accept him, and who went to Paradise for having sent you to Hell. (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it’s more dangerous to lose than to win. (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor. (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)