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I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.
By George Bernard Shaw
Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.
By George Bernard Shaw
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. Nature
By George Bernard Shaw
A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.
By George Bernard Shaw
It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.
By George Bernard Shaw
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
By George Bernard Shaw
This comes of James teaching me to think for myself, and never to hold back out of fear of what other people may think of me. It works beautifully as long as I think the same things as he does.
By George Bernard Shaw
The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.
By George Bernard Shaw
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. Love
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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
By George Bernard Shaw
Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.
By George Bernard Shaw
The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.
By George Bernard Shaw
...with the black marble which gives the fireplace the air of a miniature family vault, to suggest early Victorian commercial respectability, belief in money, Bible fetichism, fear of hell always at war with fear of poverty, instinctive horror of the passionate character of art, love and Roman Catholic religion, and all the first fruits of plutocracy in the early generations of the industrial revolution.
By George Bernard Shaw
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will.
By George Bernard Shaw
You see things as they are and ask, 'Why?' I dream things as they never were and ask, 'Why not?'
By George Bernard Shaw
There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.
By George Bernard Shaw
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.
By George Bernard Shaw
Life at its noblest leaves mere happiness far behind; and indeed cannot endure it. Happiness is not the object of life: life has no object: it is an end in itself; and courage consists in the readiness to sacrifice happiness for an intenser quality of life.
By George Bernard Shaw
A lifetime of happiness? No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
By George Bernard Shaw
Give a man health and a course to steer; and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
By George Bernard Shaw
You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.
By George Bernard Shaw
Don't order any black things. Rejoice in his memory; and be radiant: leave grief to the children. Wear violet and purple. Be patient with the poor people who will snivel: they don't know; and they think they will live for ever, which makes death a division instead of a bond.
By George Bernard Shaw
The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.
By George Bernard Shaw
The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone: the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood.
By George Bernard Shaw