People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are.
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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A drunken man is happier than a sober one.
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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
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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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Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
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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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When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
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Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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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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Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
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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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You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
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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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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
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What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.
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Hatred is the coward’s revenge for being intimidated.
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Whisky is liquid sunshine.
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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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The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.
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All great truths begin as blasphemies.
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
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Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
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Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby.
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Youth is wasted on the young.
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I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.
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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
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