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George Bernard Shaw Quotes

«Artists do not prove things. They do not need to. They know them.»
«The longer I live, the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.»
«My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.»
«If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.»
«It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less»
«When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner.»
«She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech»
«I am sure that if people had to choose between living where the noise of children never stopped and where it was never heard, all the good-natured and sound people would prefer the incessant noise to the incessant silence.»
«Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.»
«Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.»