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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

George Bernard Shaw
Inspirational, Life, Happiness
Candida (1898) act 1

My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

George Bernard Shaw
Wise, Trouble, Public Speaking
"Answers to Nine Questions". Interview with Clarence Rook, 1895.

Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.

George Bernard Shaw
Women, Nuisance, Has Beens

I can think of no other edifice constructed by man as altruistic as a lighthouse. They were built only to serve.

George Bernard Shaw
Men, Thinking, Lighthouse

There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be born again.

George Bernard Shaw
Victory, Belief, Rebirth

Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does.

George Bernard Shaw
People, Society, Doe

I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me to possess that assimilating capability to the changing phase of existence which can make itself appeal to every age... I have studied him - the wonderful man, and in my opinion far from being an Anti-Christ he must be called the Saviour of Humanity.

George Bernard Shaw
Islamic, Men, Humanity
Interview (April 1935), as quoted in "The Genuine Islam", Vol. 1, January 1936.

[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.

George Bernard Shaw
Life, Clever, Stupid
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.912, e-artnow

The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.

George Bernard Shaw
Knowledge, Fundamentals, Assumption
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Plays of George Bernard Shaw (Illustrated): Including Renowned Titles like Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, The Inca Of Perusalem, Macbeth Skit, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.1526, e-artnow

We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now

George Bernard Shaw
Environmental, World, Jehovah
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion”, p.316, e-artnow

At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not, as the Jennerians prophesied, the extermination of the human race by smallpox; on the contrary more people are now killed by vaccination than by smallpox.

George Bernard Shaw
Children, Intelligent, Race

Every child has a right to its own bent. . . . It has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether that way seems wise or foolish to others, exactly as an adult has. It has a right to privacy as to its own doings and its own affairs as much as if it were its own father.

George Bernard Shaw
Wise, Children, Father
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2861, e-artnow

When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.

George Bernard Shaw
Crazy, Acceptance, Mad
Letter to Maxim Gorky, 28 Dec. 1915

A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.

George Bernard Shaw
Men, Two, Vagabonds

A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he is morally acting on the highest principles.

George Bernard Shaw
Men, Acting, Principles
1906 BB. The Doctor's Dilemma, act 3.

Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.

George Bernard Shaw
Men, Democracy, Use

History, sir, will tell lies as usual.

George Bernard Shaw
Lying, History, Usual
'The Devil's Disciple' (1901) act 3

To the person with a toothache, even if the world is tottering, there is nothing more important than a visit to a dentist.

George Bernard Shaw
Important, World, Dentist

I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.

George Bernard Shaw
Art, Hate, Long

Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst.

George Bernard Shaw
Life, Waste, Worst
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.3004, e-artnow

Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages. He who can, does. He who cannot teaches.

George Bernard Shaw
Dark, People, Age

The ideal love affair should be conducted by post.

George Bernard Shaw
Affair, Should, Ideals

Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men.

George Bernard Shaw
Men, Effort, Progress

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.

George Bernard Shaw
Trust, Sarcastic, Men
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.5804, e-artnow

The law is equal before all of us; but we are not all equal before the law. Virtually there is one law for the rich and another for the poor, one law for the cunning and another for the simple, one law for the forceful and another for the feeble, one law for the ignorant and another for the learned, one law for the brave and another for the timid, and within family limits one law for the parent and no law at all for the child.

George Bernard Shaw
Children, Simple, Law

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