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Quotations by author » George Bernard Shaw
Irish literary Critic, Playwright and Essayist. 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature, 1856-1950
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The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
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The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.
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The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew every time he sees me, while all the rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them
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The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.
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The only service a friend can really render is to keep your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself
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The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her
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The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
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The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still - must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions
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The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbor to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.
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The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and , if they can't find them, make them.
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The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
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The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.
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The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments: its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry
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The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who haven't got it.
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The price of ability does not depend on merit, but on supply and demand.
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The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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The road to ignorance is paved with good editions
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