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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]

Life is not meant to be easy, my child but take courage: it can be delightful.

Life isn't about finding yourself, it's about creating yourself.
[Life]

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
[Love]

Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
[Aspiration]

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]

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
[Marriage]

Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
[Marriage]

Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.

Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
[Experience]

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.

Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.
[Poverty]

Morality is not respectability.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.
[Prayer]

Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination? All great truths begin as blasphemies.

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]

My only policy is to profess evil and do good.

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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