George Bernard Shaw Quotes (69 quotes)

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„We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.“
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„The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.“
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„Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.“
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„Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.“
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„There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.“
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„England and America are two countries separated by the same language.“
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„Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.“
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„In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.“
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„If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.“
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„If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.“
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„Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.“
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„The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.“
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„I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.“
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„A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.“
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„Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.“
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„All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.“
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„Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.“
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„I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.“
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„There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.“
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„The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.“

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Author information

George Bernard Shaw
Author born: January 01, 1970
Author died: November 02, 1950
Nationality: Irish
Author Profession: Dramatist

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