George Bernard Shaw

(1081 votes)   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
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(14 votes)   In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

George Bernard Shaw
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(954 votes)   A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(823 votes)   First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(666 votes)   Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

George Bernard Shaw

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(642 votes)   First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

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(580 votes)   If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper -- and despise it.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(512 votes)   Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(463 votes)   The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(455 votes)   The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(452 votes)   Well, dearie, men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. But you can't blame them for that, can you?

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1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(443 votes)   The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbor to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(398 votes)   Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing --a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.

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1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(370 votes)   Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

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(368 votes)   You will never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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