Source: 1900s, Major Barbara (1905)
“What is all human conduct but the daily and hourly sale of our souls for trifles?”
1900s, Major Barbara (1905)
Context: It is not the sale of my soul that troubles me: I have sold it too often to care about that. I have sold it for a professorship. I have sold it for an income. … What is all human conduct but the daily and hourly sale of our souls for trifles?
Help us to complete the source, original and additional information
Do you have more details about the quote "What is all human conduct but the daily and hourly sale of our souls for trifles?" by George Bernard Shaw?
George Bernard Shaw 413
Irish playwright 1856–1950Related quotes
“Oh, are not the pleasures in life, in this daily round, trifling compared with the pains!”
Satin parva res est voluptatum in vita atque in aetate agunda praequam quod molestum est?
Amphitryon, Act II, scene 2.
Amphitryon
“Since trifles make the sum of human things,
And half our misery from our foibles springs.”
Hannah More
(1745–1833) English religious writer and philanthropist
Sensibility.
Nelson Mandela
(1918–2013) President of South Africa, anti-apartheid activist
1990s, Inaugural celebration address (1994)
“The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.”
Pablo Picasso
(1881–1973) Spanish painter, sculptor, printmaker, ceramicist, and stage designer
“Our soul needs to be fed on a daily basis too, as much as the body and the mind.”
Brunello Cucinelli
(1953) Italian entrepreneur and philanthropist
Source: Samuel Hine, Brunello Cucinelli: the fashion designer who believes simple, communal meals feed the soul https://www.gq.com/story/how-to-find-your-best-diet/amp, GQ magazine, February 2020, p. 60
“We all need stories. What happens in our daily lives changes our stories.”
Wong Kar-wai
(1958) Hong Kong screenwriter, film producer and film director
"Decade: Wong Kar-wai on “In The Mood For Love” " in Indie Wire (2 February 2001) https://www.indiewire.com/2009/12/decade-wong-kar-wai-on-in-the-mood-for-love-55668/
“Our dedication to good actions as human beings is what most nourishes our souls”
Angelo Vulpini
(2003) Venezuelan recording artist
Source: Posted on @angelovulpini, Instagram (June 15, 2019)
John Ross Macduff
(1818–1895) Scottish religious writer
Source: Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895), P. 46.
W.B. Yeats
(1865–1939) Irish poet and playwright
King and No King http://poetry.poetryx.com/poems/1521/
The Green Helmet and Other Poems (1910)
Context: I that have not your faith, how shall I know
That in the blinding light beyond the grave
We’ll find so good a thing as that we have lost?
The hourly kindness, the day’s common speech,
The habitual content of each with each
When neither soul nor body has been crossed.