A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWWe are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
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The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.
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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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I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.
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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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Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
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Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!
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When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
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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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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
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When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with.
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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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You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
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I do not know what I think until I write it.
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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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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
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You don’t stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.
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Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.
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There is always danger for those who are afraid.
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I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.
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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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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
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