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Doing Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding…
- Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?
- Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you…
- When you prevent me from doing anything I want to do, that is persecution; when I prevent you from doing anything you want to do,…
- Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.
- I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing
- All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if…
- What man really wishes to do he will find a means of doing.
- There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the…
- Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human…
- We must not stay as we are, doing always what was done last time, or we shall stick in the mud. Yet neither must we…
- We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.
- Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of our own to…
- No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
- Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
- A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
- People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
- When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
- [Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
- Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.
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