There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWA man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
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My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution.
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There is always danger for those who are afraid.
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Imagination is the beginning of creation.
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Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
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Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!
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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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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself.
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Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.
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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
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A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.
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Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery – it’s the sincerest form of learning.
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If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you’ll find you’ve done it.
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Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
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I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.
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Youth is wasted on the young.
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To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.
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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
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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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The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
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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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You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
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Hell is full of musical amateurs.
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Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
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