George Bernard Shaw quotes - page 3

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance. (George Bernard Shaw)
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy. View quote
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The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is. View quote
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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. View quote
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Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough. View quote
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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. View quote
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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else. View quote
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When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication. View quote
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I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize. View quote
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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell. View quote
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it. (George Bernard Shaw)
The art of government is the organisation of idolatry. View quote
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There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses. View quote
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You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living. View quote
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Lack of money is the root of all evil. View quote
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One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't. View quote
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There is always danger for those who are afraid. View quote
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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. View quote
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Self-denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality. View quote
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Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny they have only shifted it to another shoulder. View quote
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Do not unto others as you would that they would do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same. (George Bernard Shaw)
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few. View quote
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Martyrdom... is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability. View quote
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Two percent of the people think three percent of the people think they think and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think. View quote
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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. View quote
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George Bernard Shaw

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Occupation: Irish Playwright
Born: July 26, 1856
Died: November 2, 1950
Quotes count: 828
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