The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWLiquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
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The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.
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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
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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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The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.
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When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
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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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Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance.
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Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
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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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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
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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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A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
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I do not know what I think until I write it.
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