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It's a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter's husband. The man is at home all day, like a damned soul in hell.
By George Bernard Shaw
In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the s...
By George Bernard Shaw
If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.
By George Bernard Shaw
If marriages were made by putting all the men's names into one sack and the women's names into another, and having them taken out by a blindfo...
By George Bernard Shaw
I'm afraid, Mr. Goldwyn, that we shall not ever be able to do business together. You see, you're an artist, and care only about art, while I'm...
By George Bernard Shaw
I ... must continue to strive for more knowledge and more power, though the new knowledge always contradicts the old and the new power is the ...
By George Bernard Shaw
Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
By George Bernard Shaw
Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.
By George Bernard Shaw
Faith in reason as a prime motor is no longer the criterion of the sound mind, any more than faith in the Bible is the criterion of righteous ...
By George Bernard Shaw
Fine art is the subtlest, the most seductive, the most effective instrument of moral propaganda in the world, excepting only the example of pe...
By George Bernard Shaw
Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing—a warfare accomplish...
By George Bernard Shaw
Englishmen never will be slaves: they are free to do whatever the Government and public opinion allow them to do.
By George Bernard Shaw
Bible worship, though at its best it may achieve sublimity by keeping its head in the skies, may also make itself both ridiculous and dangerou...
By George Bernard Shaw
Anything that makes you laugh. But the finest sort draws a tear along with the laugh.
By George Bernard Shaw
All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be seduced from ...
By George Bernard Shaw
When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.
By George Bernard Shaw
A man who has no office to go to -- I don't care who he is -- is a trial of which you can have no conception.
By George Bernard Shaw
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future. Wisdom
By George Bernard Shaw
If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.
By George Bernard Shaw
Girls, like men, want to be petted, pitied, and made much of, when they are diffident, in low spirits, or in unrequited love. These are services which the weak cannot render to the strong and which the strong will not render to the weak, except when there is also a difference of sex.
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No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.
By George Bernard Shaw
Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.
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Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air. It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.
By George Bernard Shaw
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough. Time
By George Bernard Shaw