George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Keeping Secrets Quotes

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

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I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.

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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

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You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.

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I am a brigand: I live by robbing the rich.' 'I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

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We all have--to put it as nicely as I can--our lower centres and our higher centres. Our lower centres act: they act with terriblepower that sometimes destroys us; but they don't talk.... Since the war the lower centres have become vocal. And the effect is that of an earthquake. For they speak truths that have never been spoken before--truths that the makers of our domestic institutions have tried to ignore.

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What is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

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Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major.

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Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.

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There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.

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I know I began as a passion and have ended as a habit , like all husbands .

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Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.

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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

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Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.

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It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.

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What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

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I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot.

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There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

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The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave sentimentalists cold, by lawyers to describe cases which ruin all the parties to them, and by lovers to describe the objects of their infatuation, however unattractive they may appear to the unaffected spectators.

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In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

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