Affection between adults - if they are really adult in mind and not merely grown up children - and creatures so relatively selfish and cruel as children necessarily are without knowing it or meaning it, cannot be called natural

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

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Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor...

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor...

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about...

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about...

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself...

If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself...

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work...

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work...

The harder I work the more I live.

The harder I work the more I live.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

He who can does - he who cannot, teaches.

He who can does - he who cannot, teaches.

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to...

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to...

It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief

It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal...

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal...

Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's...

Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's...

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence...

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence...

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

Blessed are they who see beautiful things in humble places where other people see nothing.

Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs...

Every time a student walks past a really urgent, expressive piece of architecture that belongs...

The teacher is like the candle, which lights others in consuming itself

The teacher is like the candle, which lights others in consuming itself