The liar’s punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWMy way of joking is to tell the truth. It’s the funniest joke in the world.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
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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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Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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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 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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All great truths begin as blasphemies.
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I do not know what I think until I write it.
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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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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
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I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.
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Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.
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Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
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