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We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.
By George Bernard Shaw
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. Society
By George Bernard Shaw
We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.
By George Bernard Shaw
Ladies and gentleman are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.
By George Bernard Shaw
Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
By George Bernard Shaw
I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.
By George Bernard Shaw
Well, dearie, men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. But you can't blame them for that, can you?
By George Bernard Shaw
Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.
By George Bernard Shaw
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means. Religion
By George Bernard Shaw
Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't! Religion
By George Bernard Shaw
How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
By George Bernard Shaw
We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.
By George Bernard Shaw
We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.
By George Bernard Shaw
When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with. I gave you eternity in a single moment, strength of the mountains in one clasp of your arms, and the volume of all the seas in one impulse of your soul.
By George Bernard Shaw
The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.
By George Bernard Shaw
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it. Patriotism
By George Bernard Shaw
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race. Patriotism
By George Bernard Shaw
You'll never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
By George Bernard Shaw
She has taken a patronizing fancy to her father, the Admiral, who accepts her condescension gratefully as age brings more and more home to him the futility of his social position.
By George Bernard Shaw
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.
By George Bernard Shaw