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George Bernard Shaw: It is easy...

George Bernard Shaw: It is easy...

It is easy -- terribly easy -- to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit...

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George Bernard Shaw: It's easier to...

George Bernard Shaw: It's easier to...

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

Source: Ridgeon, in The...

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George Bernard Shaw: Our necessities are...

George Bernard Shaw: Our necessities are...

Our necessities are few, but our wants are endless.

Source: In The Ultimate...

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George Bernard Shaw: Orchestras only need...

George Bernard Shaw: Orchestras only need...

Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity,...

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James Matthew Barrie: ... it's a...

James Matthew Barrie: ... it's a...

... it's a sort of bloom on a woman. If you have it you don't need to have anything else; and if you don't have it, it...

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James Matthew Barrie: Some of my...

James Matthew Barrie: Some of my...

Some of my plays peter out, and some pan out.

Source: Attrib.
-- James Matthew...

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James Matthew Barrie: The life of...

James Matthew Barrie: The life of...

The life of every man is a diary in which he means to write one story, and writes another; and his humblest hour is...

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George Bernard Shaw: We have not...

George Bernard Shaw: We have not...

We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.

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George Bernard Shaw: A man's interest...

George Bernard Shaw: A man's interest...

A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself. When you are a child your vessel is...

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George Bernard Shaw: A nap, my...

George Bernard Shaw: A nap, my...

A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavour to entertain...

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George Bernard Shaw: An Irishman's heart...

George Bernard Shaw: An Irishman's heart...

An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination.

Source: Larry Doyle, in John...

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George Bernard Shaw: He is a...

George Bernard Shaw: He is a...

He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of...

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George Bernard Shaw: Assassination: the extreme...

George Bernard Shaw: Assassination: the extreme...

Assassination: the extreme form of censorship.

Source:
-- George Bernard Shaw,...

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George Bernard Shaw: I began as...

George Bernard Shaw: I began as...

I began as a passion and ended as a habit, like all husbands.

Source: In Webster's...

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George Bernard Shaw: Do you know...

George Bernard Shaw: Do you know...

Do you know what a pessimist is? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and hates them for...

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George Bernard Shaw: Don't think you...

George Bernard Shaw: Don't think you...

Don't think you can frighten me by telling me I am alone. France is alone; and God is alone; and what is my loneliness...

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George Bernard Shaw: I can forgive...

George Bernard Shaw: I can forgive...

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel...

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George Bernard Shaw: Englishmen hate Liberty...

George Bernard Shaw: Englishmen hate Liberty...

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a...

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George Bernard Shaw: Critics, like other...

George Bernard Shaw: Critics, like other...

Critics, like other people, see what they look for, not what is actually before them.

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George Bernard Shaw: If there was...

George Bernard Shaw: If there was...

If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.

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