Best Quotes by George Bernard Shaw (Top 10)
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Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
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You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'.
George Bernard Shaw
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
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Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
George Bernard Shaw
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Those who can't change their minds can't change anything.
George Bernard Shaw
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Youth is wasted on the young.
George Bernard Shaw
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There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
George Bernard Shaw
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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
George Bernard Shaw
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There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
George Bernard Shaw
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
George Bernard Shaw
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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them
George Bernard Shaw
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The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
George Bernard Shaw
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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
George Bernard Shaw
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A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.
George Bernard Shaw
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Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
George Bernard Shaw
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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
George Bernard Shaw
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My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke
in the world.
George Bernard Shaw
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You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
George Bernard Shaw
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He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
George Bernard Shaw
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Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
George Bernard Shaw
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If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
George Bernard Shaw
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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
George Bernard Shaw
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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
George Bernard Shaw
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We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
George Bernard Shaw
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I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
George Bernard Shaw
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Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
George Bernard Shaw
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Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw
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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
George Bernard Shaw
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I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.
George Bernard Shaw
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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
George Bernard Shaw
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
George Bernard Shaw
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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
George Bernard Shaw
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When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
George Bernard Shaw
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When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
George Bernard Shaw
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All great truths begin as blasphemies.
George Bernard Shaw
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The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.
George Bernard Shaw
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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
George Bernard Shaw
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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
George Bernard Shaw
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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
George Bernard Shaw
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw
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The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw
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The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
George Bernard Shaw
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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw
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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw
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Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
George Bernard Shaw
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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
George Bernard Shaw
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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
George Bernard Shaw
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Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
George Bernard Shaw
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A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
George Bernard Shaw
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw
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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
George Bernard Shaw
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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
George Bernard Shaw
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You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw
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Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!
George Bernard Shaw
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Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
George Bernard Shaw
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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
George Bernard Shaw
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All censorships exist to prevent anyone from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently, the first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
George Bernard Shaw
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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
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If any religion had a chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam.
George Bernard Shaw
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My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.
George Bernard Shaw
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[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
George Bernard Shaw
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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
George Bernard Shaw
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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.
George Bernard Shaw
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Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
George Bernard Shaw
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The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!
George Bernard Shaw
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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
George Bernard Shaw
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In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
George Bernard Shaw
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What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn't come every day.
George Bernard Shaw
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The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
George Bernard Shaw
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A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.
George Bernard Shaw
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No diet will remove all the fat from your body because the brain is entirely fat. Without a brain, you might look good, but all you could do is run for public office.
George Bernard Shaw
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No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
George Bernard Shaw
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Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
George Bernard Shaw
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While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?
George Bernard Shaw
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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
George Bernard Shaw
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I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.
George Bernard Shaw
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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
George Bernard Shaw
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Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
George Bernard Shaw
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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.
George Bernard Shaw
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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
George Bernard Shaw
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I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
George Bernard Shaw
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A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
George Bernard Shaw
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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
George Bernard Shaw
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If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
George Bernard Shaw
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Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
George Bernard Shaw
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The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
George Bernard Shaw
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England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
George Bernard Shaw
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
George Bernard Shaw
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It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
George Bernard Shaw
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You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
George Bernard Shaw
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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?
George Bernard Shaw
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Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
George Bernard Shaw
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Hell is full of musical amateurs.
George Bernard Shaw
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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
George Bernard Shaw
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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
George Bernard Shaw
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I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum
George Bernard Shaw
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Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
George Bernard Shaw
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Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.
George Bernard Shaw
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There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.
George Bernard Shaw
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Lack of money is the root of all evil.
George Bernard Shaw
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She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw
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Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
George Bernard Shaw
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The English are not a very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity.
George Bernard Shaw
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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
George Bernard Shaw
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A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.
George Bernard Shaw
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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
George Bernard Shaw
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One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
George Bernard Shaw
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Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.
George Bernard Shaw
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I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.
George Bernard Shaw
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I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
George Bernard Shaw
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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
George Bernard Shaw
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Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
George Bernard Shaw
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What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
George Bernard Shaw
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There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
George Bernard Shaw
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Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
George Bernard Shaw
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The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.
George Bernard Shaw
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He who has never hoped can never despair
George Bernard Shaw
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The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
George Bernard Shaw
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I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
George Bernard Shaw
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I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
George Bernard Shaw
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We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
George Bernard Shaw
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Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
George Bernard Shaw
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A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
George Bernard Shaw
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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
George Bernard Shaw
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We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.
George Bernard Shaw
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Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.
George Bernard Shaw
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Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
George Bernard Shaw
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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw
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Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
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My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
George Bernard Shaw
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All professions are conspiracies against the laity.
George Bernard Shaw
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An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
George Bernard Shaw
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In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
George Bernard Shaw
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Most people do not pray; they only beg.
George Bernard Shaw
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The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
George Bernard Shaw
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You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'
George Bernard Shaw
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The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.
George Bernard Shaw
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In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
George Bernard Shaw
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Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
George Bernard Shaw
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You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.
George Bernard Shaw
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The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
George Bernard Shaw
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Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
George Bernard Shaw
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He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.
George Bernard Shaw
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It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.
George Bernard Shaw
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The 100% American is 99% idiot.
George Bernard Shaw
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This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap-heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.
George Bernard Shaw
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The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last."
George Bernard Shaw
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I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
George Bernard Shaw
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A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
George Bernard Shaw
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The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.
George Bernard Shaw
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There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
George Bernard Shaw
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What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.
George Bernard Shaw
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The best reformers the world has ever seen
are those who commence on themselves.
George Bernard Shaw
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Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
George Bernard Shaw
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Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.
George Bernard Shaw
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Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
George Bernard Shaw
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My reputation grows with every failure.
George Bernard Shaw
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Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
George Bernard Shaw
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If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
George Bernard Shaw
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The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
George Bernard Shaw
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The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
George Bernard Shaw
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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
George Bernard Shaw
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
George Bernard Shaw
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At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.
George Bernard Shaw
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The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
George Bernard Shaw
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Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
George Bernard Shaw
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Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
George Bernard Shaw
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A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.
George Bernard Shaw
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When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
George Bernard Shaw
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Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
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Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination.
George Bernard Shaw
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Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
George Bernard Shaw
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Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find? That the stables are the real centre of the household.
George Bernard Shaw
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Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.
George Bernard Shaw
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If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
George Bernard Shaw
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The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
George Bernard Shaw
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Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny; they have only shifted it to another shoulder.
George Bernard Shaw
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Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.
George Bernard Shaw
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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
George Bernard Shaw
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It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man'sto keep unmarried as long as he can.
George Bernard Shaw
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Success covers a multitude of blunders.
George Bernard Shaw
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Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw
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Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
George Bernard Shaw
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It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.
George Bernard Shaw
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Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.
George Bernard Shaw
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The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
George Bernard Shaw
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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
George Bernard Shaw
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The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
George Bernard Shaw
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Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
George Bernard Shaw
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No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
George Bernard Shaw
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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
George Bernard Shaw
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Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.
George Bernard Shaw
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Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
George Bernard Shaw
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What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.
George Bernard Shaw
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Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
George Bernard Shaw
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If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.
George Bernard Shaw
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If you go to Heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy yourself there.
George Bernard Shaw
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All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.
George Bernard Shaw
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A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
George Bernard Shaw
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A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.
George Bernard Shaw
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A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.
George Bernard Shaw
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In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.
George Bernard Shaw
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It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
George Bernard Shaw
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A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
George Bernard Shaw
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Virtue is insufficient temptation.
George Bernard Shaw
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What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?
George Bernard Shaw
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The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
George Bernard Shaw
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Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.
George Bernard Shaw
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No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
George Bernard Shaw
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Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty.
George Bernard Shaw
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Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
George Bernard Shaw
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No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
George Bernard Shaw
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The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
George Bernard Shaw
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What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.
George Bernard Shaw
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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
George Bernard Shaw
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People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them
George Bernard Shaw
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It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
George Bernard Shaw
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We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.
George Bernard Shaw
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Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.
George Bernard Shaw
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Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.
George Bernard Shaw
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The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood
George Bernard Shaw
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What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
George Bernard Shaw
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Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.
George Bernard Shaw
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Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.
George Bernard Shaw
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Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
George Bernard Shaw
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A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
George Bernard Shaw
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An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
George Bernard Shaw
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This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.
George Bernard Shaw
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Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
George Bernard Shaw
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It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.
George Bernard Shaw
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I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.
George Bernard Shaw
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I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
George Bernard Shaw
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I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.
George Bernard Shaw
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I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.
George Bernard Shaw
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The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
George Bernard Shaw
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Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
George Bernard Shaw
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No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.
George Bernard Shaw
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The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
George Bernard Shaw
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The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.
George Bernard Shaw
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While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
George Bernard Shaw
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You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking, and getting well hammered yourself.
George Bernard Shaw
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Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
George Bernard Shaw
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The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.
George Bernard Shaw