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If a woman wants to hold a man she has merely to appeal to what is worst in him.

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I have nothing to declare but my genius, and this four-kilo bag of cocaine.

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Miss Prism: And you do not seem to realize, dear Doctor, that by persistently remaining single, a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation. Men should be more careful; this very celibacy leads weaker vessels astray. Chasuble: But is a man not equally attractive when married? Miss Prism: No married man is ever attractive except to his wife. Chasuble: And often, I've been told, not even to her.

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Misery and poverty are so absolutely degrading, and exercise such a paralysing effect over the nature of men, that no class is ever really conscious of its own suffering. They have to be told of it by other people, and they often entirely disbelieve them.

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If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you.

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The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.

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Caricature is the tribute which mediocrity pays to genius.

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I never take any notice to what common people say, and I never interfere with what charming people do.

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No gentleman ever has any money.

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As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.

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Indeed, as any one who has ever worked among the poor knows only too well, the brotherhood of man is no mere poet's dream, it is a most depressing and humiliating reality.

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What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise [in the future. But only if we set out to make this true and anticipate it so we look for the blessings until we find them].

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Who is that man over there? I don't know him. What is he doing? Is he a conspirator? Have you searched him? Give him till tomorrow to confess, then hang him! -- hang him!

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An idea that isn't risky is hardly worth calling an idea.

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Disobedience is man's original virtue.

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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

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When I went to America I had two secretaries, one for autographs, one for locks of hair. Within six months the one had died of writer's cramp, the other was completely bald.

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A temperament capable of receiving, through an imaginative medium, and under imaginative conditions, new and beautiful impressions, is the only temperament that can appreciate a work of art.

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I have no objection to anyone's sex life as long as they don't practice it in the street and frighten the horses.

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Death is a great price to pay for a red rose“, cried the Nightingale, "and Life is very dear to all. “ It is pleasant to sit in the green wood, and watch the Sun in his chariot of gold, and the Moon in her chariot of pearl. Sweet is the scent oft he hawthorn, and sweet are the bluebells that hide in the valley, and the heather that blows on the hill. Yet Love is better than Life, and what is the heart of a bird compared to the heart of a man?

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