George Bernard Shaw

(190 votes)   A man of great common sense and good taste -- meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(186 votes)   You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

George Bernard Shaw
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(178 votes)   No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(176 votes)   Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

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1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(176 votes)   Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and really nice English people; and what do you always find? That the stables are the real center of the household.

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1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(169 votes)   The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

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(166 votes)   He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.

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1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(165 votes)   Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

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(163 votes)   I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(162 votes)   My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately

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1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(160 votes)   Self-denial is not a virtue, it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.

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1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(157 votes)   I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(154 votes)   Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(151 votes)   Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.

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1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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(149 votes)   No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.

George Bernard Shaw
1856-1950, Irish-born British Dramatist

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