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All great truths begin as blasphemies.

By George Bernard Shaw
An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.

By George Bernard Shaw
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.

By George Bernard Shaw
Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

By George Bernard Shaw
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

By George Bernard Shaw
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth.

By George Bernard Shaw
An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.

By George Bernard Shaw
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

By George Bernard Shaw
It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public.

By George Bernard Shaw
Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.

By George Bernard Shaw
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.

By George Bernard Shaw
In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.

By George Bernard Shaw
I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.

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

By George Bernard Shaw
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.

By George Bernard Shaw
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.

By George Bernard Shaw
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.

By George Bernard Shaw
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

By George Bernard Shaw
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.

By George Bernard Shaw
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.

By George Bernard Shaw
Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.

By George Bernard Shaw
Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

By George Bernard Shaw
It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

By George Bernard Shaw
In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.

By George Bernard Shaw
I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.

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

By George Bernard Shaw
I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.

By George Bernard Shaw
Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

By George Bernard Shaw
He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

By George Bernard Shaw
He who has never hoped can never despair.

By George Bernard Shaw