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Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.

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Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

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We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

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Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.

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I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.

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The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist

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Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one.

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I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit

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Who are those we love? Only those we do not hate.

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Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

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Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.

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I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power and the glory. I say to them You are supreme: exercise your power. They say, That's right: tell us what to do; and I tell them. I say Exercise our vote intelligently by voting for me. And they do. That's democracy; and a splendid thing it is too for putting the right men in the right place.

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You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine.

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It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.

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I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me to possess that assimilating capability to the changing phase of existence which can make itself appeal to every age... I have studied him - the wonderful man, and in my opinion far from being an Anti-Christ he must be called the Saviour of Humanity.

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We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.

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You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.

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I never expect a soldier to think.

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The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

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If you cannot have what you believe in you must believe in what you have.

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