George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Well, of course, they notice you. You always hide just in the middle of the limelight.
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Better never than late.
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We have no reason to suppose that we are the Creator's last word.
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The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
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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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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
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The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.
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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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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 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 goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.
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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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Write your Sad times in Sand, Write your Good times in Stone.
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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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Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
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The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
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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.
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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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No child should be brought up to suppose that its food and clothes come down from heaven or are miraculously conjured from empty space by papa. Loathsome as we have made the idea of duty (like the idea of work) we must habituate children to a sense of repayable obligation to the community for what they consume and enjoy, and inculcate the repayment as a point of honor.
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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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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.