George Bernard Shaw
- I'm not a teacher: only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead--ahead of myself as well as you.
(topic: advice)
- Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
(topic: beauty)
- A man of great common sense and good taste--meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
(topic: common sense)
- Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.
(topic: cruelty)
- 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.
(topic: death)
- Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
(topic: death)
- You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"
(topic: dreams)
- Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
(topic: experience)
- There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
(topic: food)
- The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
(topic: honor)
- Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
(topic: jealousy)
- 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.
(topic: manners)
- The seven deadly sins...Food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.
(topic: poverty)
- Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air...It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.
(topic: travel)
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