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2913 quotesI think I could be a good woman if I had five thousand a year.
Women
Becky Sharp
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A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
Heartbreak
George Bernard Shaw
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A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
Fellowship
George Bernard Shaw
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A lifetime of happiness? No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.
Happiness
George Bernard Shaw
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A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.
Vegetarianism
George Bernard Shaw
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A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.
Interest
George Bernard Shaw
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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself.
Pessimism
George Bernard Shaw
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An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
Morality
George Bernard Shaw
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But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
Friends and Friendship
George Bernard Shaw
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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
Democracy
George Bernard Shaw
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Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
Age and Aging
George Bernard Shaw
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How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.
Contradiction
George Bernard Shaw
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How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
Books - Reading
George Bernard Shaw
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Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
Humankind
George Bernard Shaw
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Ladies and gentleman are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.
Servants
George Bernard Shaw
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Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
Achievement
George Bernard Shaw
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Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid of.
Men
George Bernard Shaw
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Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
Ability
George Bernard Shaw
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Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
Jealousy
George Bernard Shaw
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No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
Experts
George Bernard Shaw
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Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.
Reasonableness
George Bernard Shaw
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Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.
Work
George Bernard Shaw
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Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.
Nationalities and Nationalism
George Bernard Shaw
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The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
Morality
George Bernard Shaw
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The most anxious man in a prison is the governor.
Prison
George Bernard Shaw
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Research is what I'm doing when I don't know what I'm doing.
[ Research ] Wernher Von Braun