George Bernard Shaw quotes - page 30

Therefore my tax-payer, resign yourself to this: that we may fight bravely, fight hard, fight long, fight cunningly, fight recklessly, fight in a hundred and fifty ways, but we cannot fight cheaply. (George Bernard Shaw)
A: Would you sleep with me for $1,000,000? View quote
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In my view, Anglo-Irish history is for Englishmen to remember, for Irishmen to forget. View quote
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You can't make a man a Christian unless you first make him believe he is a sinner. View quote
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A: How about $1? View quote
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The most fun things in life are either immoral, illegal or they make you fat. View quote
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We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
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, which is pleasanter than any happiness until you are tired of it. View quote
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I am sure that if people had to choose between living where the noise of children never stopped and where it was never heard, all the good-natured and sound people would prefer the incessant noise to the incessant silence. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
We throw the whole drudgery of creation one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction. (George Bernard Shaw)
It would positively be a relief to me to dig him up and throw stones at him. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
We sing in a church, why can we not dance there. View quote
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What use are cartridges in battle I always carry chocolate instead. View quote
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In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams but I look after the drainage. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Hell is full of musical amateurs music is the brandy of the damned. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
What I say today everybody will say tomorrow, though they will not remember who put it into their heads. Indeed they will be right for I never remember who puts things into my head it is the Zeitgeist. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Pickering Have you no morals, man Doolittle Can't afford them, Governor. View quote
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Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die. Spoken to his nurse. (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. View quote
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The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquet by giving him away. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes. View quote
George Bernard Shaw