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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 roulette table pays nobody except him who keeps it. Nevertheless, a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette wheels is unknown.
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The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood
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The scavenger of misery is pity.
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The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupation.
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The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing
ForgivenessUnderstanding
The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people
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The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes,respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.
Sin
The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
Communication
The slave of fear: the worst of slaveries
FearSlavery
The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false
Belief
The stock actor is a stage calamity
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The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.
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The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
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The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
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The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
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The trouble, Mr. Goldwyn is that you are only interested in art and I am only interested in money.
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The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art
Art
The true joy of life [is] being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one ... being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap heap ... being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.
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The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
Truth
The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization
Civilization
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