As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.
GEORGE BERNARD SHAWThe difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.
More George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
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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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Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby.
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A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.
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To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.
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The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
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If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.
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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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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
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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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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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All great truths begin as blasphemies.
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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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We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
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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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The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.
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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.
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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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He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
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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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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
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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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I’m an atheist and I thank God for 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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Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
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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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