George Bernard Shaw - Man and Superman (1903)

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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

George Bernard Shaw
Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another shoulder.

George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.

George Bernard Shaw
Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

George Bernard Shaw
DON JUAN: Stupidity has all the knowledge, and Imagination all the intelligence.

George Bernard Shaw
The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.

George Bernard Shaw
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

George Bernard Shaw
If you strike a child take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

George Bernard Shaw
The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.

George Bernard Shaw
As an old soldier I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as sea sickness, and matters just as little.

George Bernard Shaw
When domestic servants are treated as human beings it is not worth while to keep them.

George Bernard Shaw
The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.

George Bernard Shaw
You think that you are Ann's suitor; that you are the pursuer and she the pursued…Fool: it is you who are the pursued, the marked down quarry, the destined prey.

George Bernard Shaw
Very nice sort of place, Oxford, I should think, for people that like that sort of place. They teach you to be a gentleman there. In the Polytechnic they teach you to be an engineer or such like.

George Bernard Shaw
Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

George Bernard Shaw