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I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
Written by George Bernard Shaw
The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
Written by George Bernard Shaw
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
Written by George Bernard Shaw
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
Written by George Bernard Shaw
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
Written by George Bernard Shaw
Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.
Written by George Bernard Shaw
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
Written by George Bernard Shaw
All great truths begin as blasphemies.
Written by George Bernard Shaw
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
Written by George Bernard Shaw
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
Written by George Bernard Shaw
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
Written by George Bernard Shaw
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
Written by George Bernard Shaw
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Written by George Bernard Shaw
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
Written by George Bernard Shaw
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
Written by George Bernard Shaw
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
Written by George Bernard Shaw
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
Written by George Bernard Shaw
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Written by George Bernard Shaw
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
Written by George Bernard Shaw
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
Written by George Bernard Shaw
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
Written by George Bernard Shaw
If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
Written by George Bernard Shaw
The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.
Written by George Bernard Shaw
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
Written by George Bernard Shaw
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
Written by George Bernard Shaw
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
Written by George Bernard Shaw
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.
Written by George Bernard Shaw
You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
Written by George Bernard Shaw
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
Written by George Bernard Shaw
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.
Written by George Bernard Shaw

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