George Shaw
| Born | July 26, 1856 Dublin, Ireland |
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| Died | November 2, 1950 Hertfordshire, England |
The repository contains 22 quotes from George Bernard Shaw.
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Advice is like kissing: It costs nothing and it’s a pleasant thing to do.
Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
He knows nothing, and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
You see things as they are and say, “Why?” But I dream things that never were and say, “Why not?”
Assassination: The extreme form of censorship.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
Pessimist: a person who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
Better never than late.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
A critic is one who leaves no turn unstoned.
The liar’s punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.
Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you.
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