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Famous George Bernard Shaw Quotes
“If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.”
“A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.”
“Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.”
“Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.”
“Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.”
“Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.”
“You see things; and you say, ‘Why?’ But I dream things that never were; and I say, ‘Why not?”
“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.”
“Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.”
“Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.”
“A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.”
“Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.”
“The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.”
“I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.”
“The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.”
“If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.”
“When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.”
“The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.”
“Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.”
“Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.”
“You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.”
“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”