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Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.

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I lay my eternal curse on whomsoever shall now or at any time hereafter make schoolbooks of my works and make me hated as Shakespeare is hated. My plays were not designed as instruments of torture. All the schools that lust after them get this answer, and will never get any other.

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When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore.

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Just as the historian can teach no real history until he has cured his readers of the romantic delusion that the greatness of a queen consists in her being a pretty woman and having her head cut off, so the playwright of the first order can do nothing with his audience until he has cured them of looking at the stage through the keyhole, and sniffing round the theatre as prurient people sniff round the divorce court.

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Get out of my way; for I won't stop for you.

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They tell me that So-and-So, who does not write prefaces, is no charlatan. Well, I am. I first caught the ear of the British public on a cart in Hyde Park, to the blaring of brass bands,and this . . . because . . . I am a natural-born mountebank.

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I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog.

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I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.

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Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.

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As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.

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A critic recently described me, with deadly acuteness, as having 'a kindly dislike of my fellow-creatures.' Perhaps dread would have been nearer the mark than dislike; for man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

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Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.

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Communism, being the lay form of Catholicism, and indeed meaning the same thing, has never had any lack of chaplains.

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Success covers a multitude of blunders.

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We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.

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Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.

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Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

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I can't control what life did to me, but I can control how I react. Therein lies the difference.

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We call the one side [of humanity] religion, and we call the other science. Religion is always right. ... Science is always wrong; it is the very artifice of men. Science can never solve one problem without raising ten more problems.

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People expect too much of one year and too little of ten.

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