George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."
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"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."
George Bernard Shaw
"My reputation grows with every failure."
George Bernard Shaw
"When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work."
George Bernard Shaw
"Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him."
George Bernard Shaw
"Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children."
George Bernard Shaw
"I owe all my originality, such as it is, to my determination not to be a literary man. Instead of belonging to a literary club I belong to a municipal council. Instead of drinking and discussing authors and reviews, I sit on committees with capable practical greengrocers and bootmakers... Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh."
George Bernard Shaw
"It's all that the young can do for the old to shock them and keep them up to date."
George Bernard Shaw
"My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say and then to say it with the utmost levity."
George Bernard Shaw
"Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself."
George Bernard Shaw
"You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race."
George Bernard Shaw
"When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure so I did ten times more work."
George Bernard Shaw
"I work as my father drank."
George Bernard Shaw
"The fickleness of the woman I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me."
George Bernard Shaw
"Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers."
George Bernard Shaw
"It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can."
George Bernard Shaw
"Virtue consists not in abstaining from vice but in not desiring it."
George Bernard Shaw
"All great truths began as blasphemies."
George Bernard Shaw
"I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad."
George Bernard Shaw
"My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world."
George Bernard Shaw
"The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life."
George Bernard Shaw
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