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“Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.”
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“The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.”
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“Both optimists and pessimists contribute to society. The optimist invents the aeroplane, the pessimist the parachute.”
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“I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.”
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“Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.”
― Man and Superman
― Man and Superman
“You don't stop laughing when you grow old, you grow old when you stop laughing.”
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“The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor: he took my measure anew every time he saw me, whilst all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.”
― Man and Superman
― Man and Superman
“When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.”
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“Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.”
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“When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.”
― Back to Methuselah
― Back to Methuselah
“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire that no public monument or work of art or inscription or sermon or ritual service commemorating me shall suggest that I accepted the tenets peculiar to any established church or denomination nor take the form of a cross or any other instrument of torture or symbol of blood sacrifice.
[From the will of GBS]”
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[From the will of GBS]”
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“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. The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality of happiness, and by no means a necessity of life.”
― Androcles and the Lion
― Androcles and the Lion
“All great truths begin as blasphemies.”
― Annajanska the Bolshevik Empress
― Annajanska the Bolshevik Empress
“There are those that look at things the way they are, and ask why? I dream of things that never were, and ask why not?”
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“The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.”
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“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.”
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“This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.”
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“I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.”
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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 most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.”
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“Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.”
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“Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.”
― Man and Superman
― Man and Superman
“We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.”
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“The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.”
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“We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.”
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“A government which robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.”
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“Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.”
― The Doctor's Dilemma
― The Doctor's Dilemma
“Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.”
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“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.”
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