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You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
By George Bernard Shaw
Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.
By George Bernard Shaw
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
By George Bernard Shaw
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
By George Bernard Shaw
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
By George Bernard Shaw
We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
By George Bernard Shaw
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
By George Bernard Shaw
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.
By George Bernard Shaw
There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
By George Bernard Shaw
The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
By George Bernard Shaw
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
By George Bernard Shaw
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.
By George Bernard Shaw
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
By George Bernard Shaw
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
By George Bernard Shaw
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
By George Bernard Shaw
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
By George Bernard Shaw
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will.
By George Bernard Shaw