George Bernard Shaw on Happiness
Browse 4 quotations attributed to George Bernard Shaw, catalogued under happiness, with dates where available.
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Attributed to George Bernard Shaw, entry #17576: "He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it."
Attributed to George Bernard Shaw, entry #154055: "In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness."
4 Quotes by George Bernard Shaw on Happiness
"He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it."
"In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness."
"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; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active, which is pleasanter than any happiness until you are tired of it."
"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."