Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWYou use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.
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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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There is always danger for those who are afraid.
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As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
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In heaven an angel is no one in particular.
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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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The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.
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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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Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.
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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
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Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
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You see things; you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say ‘Why not?
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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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Animals are my friends and I don’t eat my friends.
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All great truths begin as blasphemies.
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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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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After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.
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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
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Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.
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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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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.
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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
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