George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
[Life]
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Life is not meant to be easy, my child but take courage: it can be delightful.
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Life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself.
[Life]
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Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
[Love]
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Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
[Aspiration]
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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
[Marriage]
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Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
[Marriage]
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Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
[Marriage]
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Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
[Experience]
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Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
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Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
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Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.
[Poverty]
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Morality is not respectability.
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Most people do not pray; they only beg.
[Prayer]
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Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination? All great truths begin as blasphemies.
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My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
[Writers And Writing]
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My only policy is to profess evil and do good.
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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.
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