Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
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George Bernard Shaw
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About George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1913) and Saint Joan (1923). With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literat…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by George Bernard ShawClever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
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The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire the other is to get it.