George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Liars Quotes, Believe Quotes

Just as the liar 's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed , but that he cannot believe any one else; so a guilty society can more easily be persuaded that any apparently innocent act is guilty than that any apparently guilty act is innocent.

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It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.

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I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

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I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.

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We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.

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

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In my dreams is a country where the State is the Church and the Church the people: three in one and one in three. It is a commonwealth in which work is play and play is life: three in one and one in three. It is a temple in which the priest is the worshiper and the worshiper the worshipped: three in one and one in three. It is a godhead in which all life is human and all humanity divine: three in one and one in three.

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If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.

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It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.

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The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.

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My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt.

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The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.

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I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.

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The truth sticks in our throats with all the sauces it is served with: it will never go down until we take it without any sauce at all.

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Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

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Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective.

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Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

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Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

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Faith in reason as a prime motor is no longer the criterion of the sound mind, any more than faith in the Bible is the criterion of righteous intention.

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The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.

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