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In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother’s milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person’s nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
You don’t learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you’re driving at another (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
Time enough to think of the future when you haven’t any future to think of (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
Conceive. That is the word that means both the beginning in imagination and the end in creation (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion (George Bernard Shaw 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 (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be born again (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
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 (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don’t let you out till you are dead (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
A socialist is somebody who doesn’t have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
It is necessary for the welfare of society that genius should be privileged to utter sedition, to blaspheme, to outrage good taste, to corrupt the youthful mind, and generally to scandalize one’s uncles (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
I was taught when I was young that if people would only love one another, all would be well with the world. I found when I tried to put that into practice, not only were other people seldom lovable but I wasn’t very lovable myself (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist’s business is not that of the policeman (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
The theory that music has a depraving effect on morals has now been abandoned to the old women of both sexes (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
An actress is not a lady; at least, when she is, she is not an actress (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
The censorship method... is that of handing the job over to some frail and erring mortal man, and making him omnipotent on the assumption that his official status will make him infallible and omniscient (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)
A love affair should always be a honeymoon. And the only way to make sure of that is to keep changing the man; for the same man can never keep it up (George Bernard Shaw Quotes)