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Gambling promises the poor wh...

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

If any religion had a chance ...

If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

It is not pleasure that makes...

It is not pleasure that makes life worth living. It is life that makes pleasure worth having.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

When two people are under the...

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

The secret of being miserable...

The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

It is feeling that sets a man...

It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

The function of the actor is ...

The function of the actor is to make the audience imagine for the moment that real things are happening to real people.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

All progress depends upon the...

All progress depends upon the unreasonable person.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Man gives every reason for hi...

Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Christianity might be a good ...

Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Trade unionism is not sociali...

Trade unionism is not socialism. It is the capitalism of the proletariat.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

We educate one another; and w...

We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

I am of the opinion that my l...

I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

I showed my appreciation of m...

I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

I do not want to make my stom...

I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

It is said that every people ...

It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves; for the orator of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

A learned man is an idler who...

A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Only in books has mankind kno...

Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

A fool-proof method for sculp...

A fool-proof method for sculpting an elephant: first, get a huge block of marble; then you chip away everything that doesn't look like an elephant.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

The play was a great success,...

The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

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