If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWThe play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Youth is wasted on the young.
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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
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There is always danger for those who are afraid.
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A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
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Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
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My way of joking is to tell the truth. It’s the funniest joke in the world.
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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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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling.
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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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Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby.
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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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Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
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When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with.
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Hell is full of musical amateurs.
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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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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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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
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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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Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
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The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.
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A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
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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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Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery – it’s the sincerest form of learning.
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