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Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
The Apple Cart (1928)
There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
Man and Superman (1903)
Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
Getting Married (1908)
Independence? That's middle-class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
Pygmalion (1912)
Riches and Art are spurious receipts for the production of Happiness and Beauty.
Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition then Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus.
the Preface to Androcles and the Lion (1912)
Life was driving at brains—at its darling object: an organ by which it can attain not only self-consciousness but self-understanding.
Man and Superman (1903)
God help England if she had no Scots to think for her!
The Apple Cart (1928)
We should refuse to tolerate poverty as a social institution not because the poor are the salt of the earth, but because 'the poor in a lump are bad'.
The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism (1928)
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
Walk! Not bloody likely. I am going in a taxi.
Pygmalion (1912)
There is the illusion of "increased command over Nature," meaning that cotton is cheap and that ten miles of country road on a bicycle have replaced four on foot.
A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose, and due leisure, whether he be painter or ploughman.
The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now.
Days with Bernard Shaw (1949)
He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
Major Barbara (1905)
Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
Overruled (1912)
The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.
Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
When we come to creative art, to the living word of a man delivering a message to his own time, it is clear that any attempt to alter this later on is simply fraud and forgery.
Quintessence Of Ibsenism (1891)