The liar’s punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWIf you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
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The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.
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A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.
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Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
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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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When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with.
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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
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The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.
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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
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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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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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A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
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