A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWOnly in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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There is always danger for those who are afraid.
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Whisky is liquid sunshine.
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Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
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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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When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with.
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No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means
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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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The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.
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I do not know what I think until I write it.
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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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A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
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Life is not meant to be easy, my child; but take courage: it can be delightful.
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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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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
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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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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
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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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Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men’s imperfections, and conceal your own.
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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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Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
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Your friends are all the dullest dogs.
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A drunken man is happier than a sober one.
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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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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
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Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
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