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Letter "G" » George Bernard Shaw Quotes
«When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.»
«We know now that the soul is the body, and the body the soul. They tell us they are different because they want to persuade us that we can keep our souls if we let them make slaves of our bodies.»
«Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit, though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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Men and Women
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«People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got: everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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exaggerate, exaggerates, exaggerating, unselfishness, worships
«It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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also, dangerous, sincere, sincerer, sincerest, stupid
«When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he will always declare that it is his duty.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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ashamed, declare, duty, Something Stupid, stupid
«No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means»
«The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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affair, conducted, conducts, entirely, love affair, perfect, post, posted, posting, The Affair
«If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
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burned, likes, painting, percent, population, populations, ten, ten percent
«There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject»
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