Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWImitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery – it’s the sincerest form of learning.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.
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The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.
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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
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When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with.
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A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
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A drunken man is happier than a sober one.
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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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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
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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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Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty.
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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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All great truths begin as blasphemies.
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If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple.
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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
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Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!
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