The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWIf you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
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You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.
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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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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
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Imagination is the beginning of creation.
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Hell is full of musical amateurs.
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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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A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.
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The liar’s punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
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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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Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery – it’s the sincerest form of learning.
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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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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
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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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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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I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.
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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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What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.
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A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
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There is always danger for those who are afraid.
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