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George Bernard Shaw Quotes

«You cannot be a hero without being a coward»
«Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it»
«He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.»
«Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.»
«Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.»
«Alcohol is a very necessary article . . . It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.»
«Critics, like other people, see what they look for, not what is actually before them.»
«I wish all Americans were as blind as you.»
«We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.»
«The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.»