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Letter "G" » George Bernard Shaw Quotes
«The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
at leisure, avoid, leisure, miserable, wonder
«Newspapers are unable, seemingly to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Civilization,
Newspapers
| Keywords:
accident, bicycle, Bicycles, civilization, collapse, collapsed, collapses, collapsing, discriminate, discriminated, discriminates, discriminating, newspapers, seemingly, unable
«Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.»
«What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
amiable, cynical, likely, strained, straining
«The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still - must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Mind
| Keywords:
arrive, arrive at, conclusion, conclusions, dogmatically, for the moment, open-minded, Open Mind, reasonable, snap, snapped, snapping, snaps, snap at, utmost
«We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.»
«I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it in to existence or clearing the way for it»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
clearing, clearings, conceive, conceives, conceiving, existence, striving, strivings
«A happy family is but an earlier heaven.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Family
| Keywords:
earlier, Happy Family
«What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
contemporary, fictitious, for the most part, obsolete, Real part, substitution, The Contemporary
«The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Genius,
Honor
| Keywords:
honor, tragic
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