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“I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.”

George Bernard Shaw

“What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.”

George Bernard Shaw Misalliance

Source: Misalliance

“He who has never hoped can never despair”

George Bernard Shaw

“Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble? Making life means making
trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.”

George Bernard Shaw

Source: Pygmalion & My Fair Lady

“I want to be thoroughly used up when I die for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.”

George Bernard Shaw

“We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence… on pain of liquidation”

George Bernard Shaw

“Galatea never does quite like Pygmalion: his relation to her is too godlike to be altogether agreeable.”

George Bernard Shaw Pygmalion

Source: Pygmalion

“Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?”

George Bernard Shaw Man and Superman

Source: Man and Superman

“A happy familiy is but an earlier heaven.”

George Bernard Shaw

“Martyrdom, sir, is what these people like: it is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.”

George Bernard Shaw The Devil's Disciple

The Devil's Disciple, Act II
1900s

“What is life but a series of inspired follies…”

George Bernard Shaw

“If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a foot-rule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.”

George Bernard Shaw

#16
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

“A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.”

George Bernard Shaw

1900s, Love Among the Artists (1900)

“No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.”

George Bernard Shaw

#41
1900s, Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)

“I aint such a mug as to put up my children to all I know myself.”

George Bernard Shaw

Act II
1910s, Pygmalion (1912)

“You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.”

George Bernard Shaw

The Irrational Knot, Preface (1905)
1900s

“I had not achieved a success; but I provoked an uproar; and the sensation was so agreeable that I resolved to try again.”

George Bernard Shaw

Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant, Vol. I, preface http://books.google.com/books?id=MiJaAAAAMAAJ&amp;q=%22I+had+not+achieved+a+success+but+I+had+provoked+an+uproar+and+the+sensation+was+so+agreeable+that+I+resolved+to+try+again%22&amp;pg=PR13#v=onepage (1898) <br class="br">1890s

“I am very subtle; but Man is deeper in his thought than I am. The woman knows that there is no such thing as nothing: the man knows that there is no such day as tomorrow. I do well to worship them.”

George Bernard Shaw

The Serpent, in Pt. I, Act I
1920s, Back to Methuselah (1921)