119 quotes by George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw: “Have reserved two tickets for my first night. Come and bring a friend, if you have one.”
Winston Churchill: “Impossible to come to first night. Will come to second night, if you have one.”

Context:Regarding tickets to the play “Saint Joan.”

Source:Churchill by Himself: The Definitive Collection of Quotat...

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“Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.” — George Bernard Shaw

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“Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.” — George Bernard Shaw

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