Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWWhisky is liquid sunshine.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.
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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
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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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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
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There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
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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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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
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There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart’s desire. The other is to gain it.
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You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
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A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.
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When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
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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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Animals are my friends and I don’t eat my friends.
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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
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