Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

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Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be...

Forget about likes and dislikes. They are of no consequence. Just do what must be...

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man...

The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man...

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides,...

I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides,...

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that...

The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that...

Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence

Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that...

Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that...

Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes

Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive,...

When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive,...

In the arts of life, man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he...

In the arts of life, man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he...

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor...

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor...

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and...

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and...

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are...

Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are...

A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool....

A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool....

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and...

Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and...

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.