Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWOnly in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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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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Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.
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Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.
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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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Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
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The liar’s punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
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I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.
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Youth is wasted on the young.
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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
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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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Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
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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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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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