The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWWhy should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
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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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Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.
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Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
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The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not.
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When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
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The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
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When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
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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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Progress is impossible without change; and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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Animals are my friends and I don’t eat my friends.
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A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
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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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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
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What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.
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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
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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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Independence? That’s middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
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All great truths begin as blasphemies.
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Whisky is liquid sunshine.
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Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby.
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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
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