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What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

— George Bernard Shaw

More from George Bernard Shaw

  1. An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
  2. There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
  3. Hell is full of musical amateurs. Music is the brandy of the damned.
  4. The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
  5. [between his teeth] Goon. Talk politics, you idiots: nothing sounds more respectable. Keep it up, I tell you.
  6. Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
  7. ANA. ...Tell me where can I find the Superman? THE DEVIL. He is not yet created, Senora. THE STATUE. And never will be, probably[...] ANA. …
  8. Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.[1]

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Topics in this quote

  • society
  • ethics
  • marriage
  • irony
  • virtue
  • social structures
  • union

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