The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWThere is always danger for those who are afraid.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
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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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If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you’ll find you’ve done it.
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You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.
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To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.
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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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Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
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Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery – it’s the sincerest form of learning.
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Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.
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Imagination is the beginning of creation.
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Whisky is liquid sunshine.
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If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.
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Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
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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 man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.
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Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.
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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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Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
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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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A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.
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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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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
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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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Youth is wasted on the young.
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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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A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
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