When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWDo 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.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.
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A drunken man is happier than a sober one.
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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
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Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
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The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.
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The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.
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When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
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If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.
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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
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There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
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I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.
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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling.
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Youth is wasted on the young.
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A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
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I do not know what I think until I write it.
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The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
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When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with.
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The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
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My way of joking is to tell the truth. It’s the funniest joke in the world.
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There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?
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Hell is full of musical amateurs.
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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.
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I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.
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Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
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