The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWChoose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
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Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
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There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
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After all, the wrong road always leads somewhere.
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Youth is wasted on the young.
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In heaven an angel is no one in particular.
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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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Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
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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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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.
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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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Hell is full of musical amateurs.
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He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
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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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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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Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
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If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they’ll kill you.
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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
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The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.
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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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If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
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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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A drunken man is happier than a sober one.
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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
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