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If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.

By George Bernard Shaw

If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.

By George Bernard Shaw

If the lesser mind could measure the greater as a footrule can measure a pyramid, there would be finality in universal suffrage. As it is, the political problem remains unsolved.

By George Bernard Shaw

If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad.

By George Bernard Shaw

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.

By George Bernard Shaw

If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

By George Bernard Shaw

I’d like to be the person I could have been but never was.

By George Bernard Shaw

I'm not a teacher only a fellow-traveller of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead-ahead of myself as well as you.

By George Bernard Shaw

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

By George Bernard Shaw

I want to be all used up when I die.

By George Bernard Shaw

I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.

By George Bernard Shaw

I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

By George Bernard Shaw

I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

By George Bernard Shaw

I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.

By George Bernard Shaw

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.

By George Bernard Shaw

I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.

By George Bernard Shaw

I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.

By George Bernard Shaw

I can't forgive my friends for dying I don't find these vanishing acts of theirs at all amusing.

By George Bernard Shaw

I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.

By George Bernard Shaw

I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

By George Bernard Shaw

I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

By George Bernard Shaw

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

By George Bernard Shaw

Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

By George Bernard Shaw

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.

By George Bernard Shaw

Hell is full of musical amateurs music is the brandy of the damned.

By George Bernard Shaw

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

By George Bernard Shaw

He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

By George Bernard Shaw

He who can, does. He who cannot teaches.

By George Bernard Shaw

Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.

By George Bernard Shaw

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich--something for nothing.

By George Bernard Shaw