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George Bernard Shaw Quotes

«Manners are more important than laws and upon them, to a great deal, the law depends.»
«Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing»
«A man who has no office to go to, I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception»
«I flatly declare that a man fed on whisky and dead bodies cannot do the finest work of which he is capable»
«A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and has energy enough to give effect to this extra vision and its valuations in whatever manner best suits his or her»
«The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.»
«I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit»
«My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience»
«Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.»
«I don't want to talk grammar, I want to talk like a lady»