George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Better never than late.
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A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.
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A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
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Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus.
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Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence.
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The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.
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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
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Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results.
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Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.
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Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.
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Well, of course, they notice you. You always hide just in the middle of the limelight.
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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.
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The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.
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The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.
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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
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Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.
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Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life is greater than death, and hope than despair.
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If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor.... Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor!
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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
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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.
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Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.
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Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
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There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles; he bullies you on manly principles; he supports his king on loyal principles and cuts off his king's head on republican principles.
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I exclude the hypothesis of complete originality on Charles Lever's part, because a man can no more be completely original in that sense than a tree can grow out of air.