It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWWhen a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
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To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.
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Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
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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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If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.
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You see things; you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?
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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.
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
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I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.
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Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.
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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
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I do not know what I think until I write it.
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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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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
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