Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
George Bernard Shaw
Marriage Class, Desertion Humor, Marriage, Class, Desertion, Humor
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“Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.” George Bernard Shaw
Exaggerated Love, Emotional Bias, Love, Bias, Exaggeration, Difference
George Bernard Shaw Exaggerated Love, Emotional Bias, Love, Bias, Exaggeration, Difference“It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.” George Bernard Shaw
Heartbreak Pain, Peace Transition, Heartbreak, Pain, Peace, Transition
George Bernard Shaw Heartbreak Pain, Peace Transition, Heartbreak, Pain, Peace, Transition“One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.” George Bernard Shaw
Mind Power, Intelligence Advantage, Mind, Power, Intelligence, Advantage
George Bernard Shaw Mind Power, Intelligence Advantage, Mind, Power, Intelligence, Advantage“Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.” George Bernard Shaw
English Debate, Contradiction Irony, English, Debate, Irony, Contradiction
George Bernard Shaw English Debate, Contradiction Irony, English, Debate, Irony, Contradiction“Man’s inhumanity to man is only surpassed by his cruelty to animals.” George Bernard Shaw
Human Cruelty, Social Reflection, Animal Rights, Inhumanity, Man, Animals
George Bernard Shaw Human Cruelty, Social Reflection, Animal Rights, Inhumanity, Man, Animals“You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'” George Bernard Shaw
Dream Big, Creative Vision, Dreams, Vision, Imagination, Boldness
George Bernard Shaw Dream Big, Creative Vision, Dreams, Vision, Imagination, Boldness“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.” George Bernard Shaw
Heaven Misery, Conventional Dullness, Heaven, Misery, Dullness, Conventional
George Bernard Shaw Heaven Misery, Conventional Dullness, Heaven, Misery, Dullness, Conventional“A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.” George Bernard Shaw
Photographer Effort, Maturity Odds, Photographer, Effort, Odds, Maturity
George Bernard Shaw Photographer Effort, Maturity Odds, Photographer, Effort, Odds, Maturity“What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.” George Bernard Shaw
Character Circumstances, Action Judgment, Character, Circumstances, Judgment, Action
George Bernard Shaw Character Circumstances, Action Judgment, Character, Circumstances, Judgment, Action“Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.” George Bernard Shaw
Capital Punishment, Deed Consequences, Capital, Punishment, Consequences, Deed
George Bernard Shaw Capital Punishment, Deed Consequences, Capital, Punishment, Consequences, Deed“Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.” George Bernard Shaw
Respectability Burden, Moral Compromise, Respectability, Burden, Compromise, Moral
George Bernard Shaw Respectability Burden, Moral Compromise, Respectability, Burden, Compromise, Moral“Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.” George Bernard Shaw
Happiness Pursuit, Beauty Folly, Happiness, Pursuit, Folly, Beauty
George Bernard Shaw Happiness Pursuit, Beauty Folly, Happiness, Pursuit, Folly, Beauty“My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths.” George Bernard Shaw
Controversial Education, Dogmatic Knowledge, Controversial, Education, Knowledge, Dogmatic
George Bernard Shaw Controversial Education, Dogmatic Knowledge, Controversial, Education, Knowledge, Dogmatic“The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination.” George Bernard Shaw
Irish Imagination, Cultural Identity, Poetic Spirit, Irishman, Imagination, Heart
George Bernard Shaw Irish Imagination, Cultural Identity, Poetic Spirit, Irishman, Imagination, Heart“If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.” George Bernard Shaw
Sacrifice Love, Resentment Growth, Sacrifice, Love, Growth, Resentment
George Bernard Shaw Sacrifice Love, Resentment Growth, Sacrifice, Love, Growth, Resentment“Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.” George Bernard Shaw
Leadership Myth, Artificial Power, Kings, Leadership, Illusion, Influence
George Bernard Shaw Leadership Myth, Artificial Power, Kings, Leadership, Illusion, Influence“Lack of money is the root of all evil.” George Bernard Shaw
Financial Struggles, Money Problems, Poverty, Money, Evil, Struggles
George Bernard Shaw Financial Struggles, Money Problems, Poverty, Money, Evil, Struggles“The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.” George Bernard Shaw
Perspective Duality, Heaven Hell, Perspective, Duality, Heaven, Hell
George Bernard Shaw Perspective Duality, Heaven Hell, Perspective, Duality, Heaven, Hell