What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

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The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a great refuge from home life.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a great refuge from home life.

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...

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking...

The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking...

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man...

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man...

To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as...

To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as...

Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be...

Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be...

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The...

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The...

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

The slave of fear: the worst of slaveries

The slave of fear: the worst of slaveries

Manners are more important than laws and upon them, to a great deal, the law...

Manners are more important than laws and upon them, to a great deal, the law...

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an...

Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an...

Schools must not become the agencies through which propaganda advocated by any section of society...

Schools must not become the agencies through which propaganda advocated by any section of society...

Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence

Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and...

You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and...

Syllables govern the world.

Syllables govern the world.

The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may...

The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may...

The only service a friend can really render is to keep your courage by holding...

The only service a friend can really render is to keep your courage by holding...

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted...

I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted...

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man...

The things I want to know are in books; my best friend is the man...

You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself, he...

You can always tell a real friend; when you've made a fool of yourself, he...

Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and...

Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and...