But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it:
it would be hell on earth.
Man and Superman
Act 1
There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
Man and Superman
Act 1
The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go
barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner
than work at anything but his art.
Man and Superman
Act 1
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable
he is.
Man and Superman
Act 1
Vitality in a woman is a blind fury of creation.
Man and Superman
Act 1
You think that you are Anns suitor; that you are the
pursuer and she the pursued
Fool: it is you who are
the pursued, the marked down quarry, the destined prey.
Man and Superman
Act 2
Mendoza: I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.
Tanner: I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.
Man and Superman
Act 3
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
Man and Superman
Act 3
Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of
the damned.
Man and Superman
Act 3
Englishmen never will be slaves: they are free to do whatever
the Government and public opinion allows them to do.
Man and Superman
Act 3
In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts
of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry
and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and
famine.
Man and Superman
Act 3
In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.
Man and Superman
Act 3
When the military man approaches, the world locks up its
spoons and packs off its womankind.
Man and Superman
Act 3
What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married
Man and Superman
Act 3
Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the
constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that
if the chain were broken and the prisoners left free to choose,
the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You cannot have
the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock
him in If he is not, why pretend that he is
Man and Superman
Act 3
Nobody could stand an eternity of heaven.
Man and Superman
Act 3
Your friends are all the dullest dogs I know. They are not
beautiful: they are only decorated. They are not clean: they
are only shaved and starched. They are not dignified: they
are only fashionably dressed. They are not educated: they
are only college passmen. They are not religious: they are
only pewrenters. They are not moral: they are only conventional.
They are not virtuous: they are only cowardly. They are not
even vicious: they are only frail.
Man and Superman
Act 3
Heaven is the most angelically dull place in all creation.
Man and Superman
Act 3
There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your hearts
desire. The other is to get it.
Man and Superman
Act 4
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks
at it when it has been in the house three days
Man and Superman
Act 4
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose
recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly
worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being
a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod
of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will
not devote itself to making you happy.
Man and Superman
Epistle Dedicatory
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