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The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
Topic: Gossip
Source: None
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Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as
an educated gentlemen.
Topic: Greece
Source: Major Barbara
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Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
Topic: Hate
Source: None
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Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
Topic: Hatred
Source: None
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There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it. -George Bernard Shaw.
Topic: Heart-quotes
Source: None
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Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.
Topic: Home
Source: None
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Topic: Honor
Source: None
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Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome,
contented, and really nice English people; and what do you always
find? That the stables are the real centre of the household.
Topic: Horses
Source: Heartbreak House
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The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
Topic: Humility
Source: Man and Superman
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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.
Topic: Humor
Source: The Doctor's Dilemma
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My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke
in the world.
Topic: Humor
Source: John Bull's Other Island (act II)
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I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.
Topic: Hunger
Source: Major Barbara
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The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the
hunger for bread.
Topic: Hunger
Source: Major Barbara
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A man who has no office to go to--I don't care who he is--is a
trial of which you can have no conception.
Topic: Idleness
Source: The Irrational Knot (ch. XVIII)
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Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.
Topic: Intentions
Source: None
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Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and
brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in
Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first
and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one.
Topic: Ireland
Source: quoted in "Ireland in Mind", Alice Leccese Powers, ed. (2000)
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An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination.
Topic: Ireland
Source: John Bull's Other Island
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Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
Topic: Jealousy
Source: None
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This is the true joy of life, the being used up for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clot of ailments and grievances, complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy. I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the community, and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it what I can. . -George Bernard Shaw.
Topic: Joy
Source: None
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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
Topic: Knowledge
Source: None
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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
Topic: Language
Source: None
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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.
Topic: Laughter
Source: None
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Topic: Liberty
Source: None
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Topic: Liberty
Source: None
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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
Topic: Life
Source: None
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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. -George Bernard Shaw.
Topic: Life
Source: None
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Alcohol is a very necessary article . . . . It enables
Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person
would do at eleven in the morning.
Topic: Liquor
Source: Major Barbara
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Gin was mother's milk to her.
Topic: Liquor
Source: Pygmalion
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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.
Topic: Love
Source: None
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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.
Topic: Love
Source: None
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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
Topic: Love
Source: None
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The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
Topic: Lying
Source: None
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What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder; God will
take care of that.
Topic: Marriage
Source: Getting Married
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Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the
constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the
chain were broken and the prisoners were left free to choose, the
whole social fabric would fly asunder. You can't have the
argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in?
If he is not, why pretend that he is?
Topic: Marriage
Source: Man and Superman
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Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation
with the maximum of opportunity.
Topic: Marriage
Source: Man and Superman--Maxims for Revolutionists
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My advice to you is get married: if you find a good wife you'll
be happy; if not, you'll become a philosopher.
Topic: Marriage
Source: Man and Superman--Maxims for Revolutionists
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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.
Topic: Marriage
Source: None
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There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for
all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes.
Topic: Medicine
Source: The Doctor's Dilemma
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A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.
Topic: Medicine
Source: None
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Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.
Topic: Money
Source: None
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Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.
Topic: Money
Source: None
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The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us
as much as the word telephone or motor car.
Topic: Morality
Source: Fanny's First Play (preface)
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An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
Topic: Morality
Source: Man and Superman
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The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion
against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child
with the obligation to become the servant of a man.
Topic: Motherhood
Source: Getting Married
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He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.
Topic: Motives
Source: None
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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
Topic: Murder
Source: The Showing-Up of Blanco Posnet
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Criminals do not die by the hands of the law; they die by the hands of other men.
Topic: Murder
Source: None
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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
Topic: Nature
Source: None
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No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
Topic: Obvious
Source: None
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All professions are conspiracies against the laity.
Topic: Occupations
Source: The Doctor's Dilemma
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