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George Bernard Shaw
Books and Quotes Collection
A Treatise on Parents and Children
1910
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation
The Dark Lady of the Sonnets
1910
His ugliness was not unamiable: it was accidental, external, excrescential.
Androcles and the Lion
1913
He looks a spoilsport. There are men in whose presence it is impossible to have any fun: men who are a sort of walking conscience.
Pygmalion
1913
Never lose a chance: it doesnt come everyday. I shall make a duchess of this draggletailed guttersnipe.
DOOLITTLE [sad but magnanimous] They played you off very cunning, Eliza, them two sportsmen.
Doctors' Delusions Crude Criminology and Sham Education
1915
[T]he whole business was a silly mistake due to a murderous-mouthed ignorance of the ease with which the same result could have been obtained by inoculation with anopheles vaccine and stegomyia emulsion.
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A Treatise on Parents and Children
The Dark Lady of the Sonnets
Androcles and the Lion
Pygmalion
Doctors' Delusions Crude Criminology and Sham Education