George Bernard Shaw Quotes, People Quotes, Weakness Quotes

Even to this day it is easier than it ought to be for me to get a rise out of an American by telling him something about himself which is equally true about every human being on the face of the globe. He at once resents this as a disparagement and an assertion on my part that people in other parts of the globe are not like that, and are loftily superior to such weaknesses.

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It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

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The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.

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This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets.

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A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

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A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and non-veracity.

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No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it.

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Only fools repeat the same things over and over, expecting to obtain different results.

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Activity is the only road to knowledge.

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Success covers a multitude of blunders.

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A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.

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If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community

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A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot confess themcannot but deny them passionately.

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Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

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Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.

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Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

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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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Rebecca [West] can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.

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Music is the brandy of the damned.

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After studying the Hungarian language for years, I can confidently conclude that had Hungarian been my mother tongue, it would have been more precious. Simply because through this extraordinary, ancient and powerful language it is possible to precisely describe the tiniest differences and the most secretive tremors of emotions.

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