Quotes
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Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny. They have only shifted it to another shoulder.
George Bernard Shaw
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Man and Superman
Drama
There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw
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Man and Superman
Drama
He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
George Bernard Shaw
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Major Barbara
Drama
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
George Bernard Shaw
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Immaturity
Drama
Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.
George Bernard Shaw
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Heartbreak House
Drama
Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
George Bernard Shaw
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Heartbreak House
Drama
Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn’t really hurt.
George Bernard Shaw
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Heartbreak House
Drama
He who has never hoped can never despair.
George Bernard Shaw
•
Ceaser and Cleopatra
Drama
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
George Bernard Shaw
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Ceaser and Cleopatra
Drama
Give a man health and a course to steer; and he’ll never stop to trouble about whether he’s happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw
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Captain Brassbound's Conversion
Drama
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
George Bernard Shaw
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Candida
Drama
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
George Bernard Shaw
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Back to Methusaleh
Drama
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
George Bernard Shaw
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Annajanska
Fiction
Patriotism: Your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw
•
A Journal of Democracy
Drama
Faith is not in power but in truth.
Fyodor Mihayloviç Dostoyevski
•
The Brothers Karamazov
NOVEL
A gentleman, even if he loses everything he owns, must show no emotion. Money must be so far beneath a gentleman that it is hardly worth troubling about.
Fyodor Dostoevski
•
The Gambler
NOVEL
Is it really not possible to touch the gaming table without being instantly infected by superstition?
Fyodor Dostoevski
•
The Gambler
NOVEL
And now once again I asked myself the question: do I love her? And once more I could not answer, that is to say, again, for the hundreth time, I answered that I hated her.
Fyodor Dostoevski
•
The Gambler
NOVEL
Why count the days, when even one days is enough for a man to know all happiness?
Fyodor Dostoevski
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The Karamazov Brothers
NOVEL
‘No one but you and one ‘jade’ I have fallen in love with, to my ruin. But being in love doesn't mean loving. You may be in love with a woman and yet hate her.
Fyodor Dostoevski
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The Karamazov Brothers
NOVEL