George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

Irish-born playwright
26 July 1856 — 2 November 1950

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

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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.

My reputation grows with every failure.

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

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You see things and say "Why?"; but I dream things that never were and I say "Why not?".

The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.

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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.

Suppose the world were only one of God`s jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and, if they can't find them, make them.

If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.

A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.

It`s so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.

Hatred is the coward`s revenge for being intimidated.

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