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I am very subtle; but Man is ...

I am very subtle; but Man is deeper in his thought than I am. The woman knows that there is no such thing as nothing: the man knows that there is no such day as tomorrow. I do well to worship them.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Nothing is more dreadful than...

Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Even a vortex is a vortex in ...

Even a vortex is a vortex in something. You can't have a whirlpool without water; and you can't have a vortex without gas, or molecules or atoms or ions or electrons or something, not nothing.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Just as the liar 's punishmen...

Just as the liar 's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed , but that he cannot believe any one else; so a guilty society can more easily be persuaded that any apparently innocent act is guilty than that any apparently guilty act is innocent.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

The poor silly-clever Irishma...

The poor silly-clever Irishman takes off his hat to God's Englishman.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

It would positively be a reli...

It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

A sensitive boy's humiliation...

A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot confess themcannot but deny them passionately.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

The English have no respect f...

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no man can teach himself what it soundslike.It isimpossible foran Englishmanto openhis mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

When a heretic wishes to avoi...

When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of "Orthodoxy, True and False" and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

The salvation of the world de...

The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Well, sir, you never can tell...

Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

My opportunities were still t...

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 1763 quotes

Human misery is so appalling ...

Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of our own to the real miseries of others without doing them any good.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Here there is no hope, and co...

Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.

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Vulgarity is a necessary part...

Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

He said that private practice...

He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that private doctors were ignorant licensed murders.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

If associations to control bu...

If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers and murderers.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Being hurt by someone you tru...

Being hurt by someone you truly care about leaves a hole in you heart that only love can fill.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Faith in reason as a prime mo...

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 intention.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

I must have been an insuffera...

I must have been an insufferable child; all children are.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

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