George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Lying Quotes

Those who won't hesitate to vivisect, won't hesitate to lie about it as well.

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Do not mistake your objection to defeat for an objection to fighting, your objection to being a slave for an objection to slavery, your objection to not being as rich as your neighbor for an objection to poverty. The cowardly, the insubordinate, and the envious share your objections.

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Money is a most important thing in the world.

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Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.

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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.

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The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.

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A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.

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Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men.

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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.

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Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.

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I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.

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I have found, after a good deal of consideration, that the best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for Him here.

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Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.

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I can't talk religion to a man with bodily hunger in his eyes.

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I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.

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No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.

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The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.

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Rebecca [West] can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.

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Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family. But here again, because there is nothing to sell, there is a very general disposition to regard a married woman's work as no work at all, and to take it as a matter of course that she should not be paid for it.

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The sex illusion is not a fixed quantity: not what mathematicians call a constant. It varies from zero in my wife's case to madness in that of our stepsister.

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