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George Bernard Shaw
Find important quotes and citations by the author George Bernard Shaw.
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Quote 1852
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.More quotes on the topics: love perfection affair
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Quote 1651
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laughMore quotes on the topics: lifetime happiness death seriousness humor
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Quote 1564
Every man over forty is a scoundrel -
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I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad -
Quote 1523
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.More quotes on the topics: time opportunity
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Quote 1450
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.More quotes on the topics: advantage sports preference time
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Quote 1436
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable. -
Quote 1396
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody elseMore quotes on the topics: preference love overacting difference people
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Quote 1343
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.More quotes on the topics: wastage time indifference poverty richness uselessness society
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Quote 1337
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the childrenMore quotes on the topics: parents profession fitness interest children importance
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Quote 1288
The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him thereMore quotes on the topics: garden god opportunity chance
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Quote 1251
Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few surviveMore quotes on the topics: eat and drink habit age death danger
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Quote 1249
There is no sincerer love than the love of foodMore quotes on the topics: eat and drink love truth honesty taste
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Quote 1241
Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friendsMore quotes on the topics: friendship eat and drink animals protection
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Quote 1226
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous -
Quote 1193
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree doesMore quotes on the topics: birth affair nature performance
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Quote 910
Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatnessMore quotes on the topics: greatness happiness duty work effort
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Quote 897
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statisticsMore quotes on the topics: intelligence personality truth
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Quote 888
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it danceMore quotes on the topics: family separation optimism
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Quote 866
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?More quotes on the topics: beauty attention habit indifference
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Quote 810
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.More quotes on the topics: marriage individualism difference unity
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Quote 594
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children -
Quote 581
Age is strictly a case of mind over matter. If you don't mind, it doesn't matterMore quotes on the topics: age mind indifference
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Quote 543
Patriotism is the conviction that your country is superior to all others because you were born in it.More quotes on the topics: patriotism homeland birth conviction preference egoism
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Quote 518
England and America are two countries separated by the same languageMore quotes on the topics: speech difference homeland individualism unity separation
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Quote 427
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.More quotes on the topics: children interest example conviction rules
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Quote 426
Animals are my friends and I don’t eat my friends.More quotes on the topics: animals friendship eat and drink protection aversion
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Quote 394
All great truths begin as blasphemies -
Quote 389
Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt fewMore quotes on the topics: democracy election incompetence appointment corruption
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Quote 380
Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course -
Quote 371
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.More quotes on the topics: religion uniqueness
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Quote 349
I often quote myself. I find it adds spice to the conversationMore quotes on the topics: interest egoism self-confidence speech conversation
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Quote 326
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.More quotes on the topics: truth carefulness joke secret
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Quote 245
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It is the funniest joke in the world -
Quote 231
The golden rule is that there are no golden rulesMore quotes on the topics: freedom regulations rules
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Quote 221
Freedom means responsibility; that is the reason why most people are afraid of itMore quotes on the topics: freedom responsibility fear people causes
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Quote 196
You’ll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human raceMore quotes on the topics: patriotism world silence peace
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Quote 148
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty -
Quote 147
A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out -
Quote 106
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappinessMore quotes on the topics: world happiness unhappiness wealth worthlessness
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Quote 99
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earthMore quotes on the topics: happiness hell earth lifetime problems
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Quote 60
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothingMore quotes on the topics: mistakes value honorability sense living
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Quote 43
You see things; and you say: "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say: "Why not?"More quotes on the topics: imaginations intentions opportunity
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Quote 38
Lack of money is the root of all evil -
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A happy family is but an earlier heavenMore quotes on the topics: happiness heaven satisfaction reward
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