Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

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The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.

Who says love never lives? Maybe we've never lived.

Who says love never lives? Maybe we've never lived.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the...

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the...

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...

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other...

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other...

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

Those who can do, those who can't teach.

Those who can do, those who can't teach.

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us...

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us...

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.

You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and...

You see things; and you say Why? But I dream things that never were; and...

People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.

People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

If you are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life, your reward...

If you are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life, your reward...

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every...

Fashion is a form of ugliness so intolerable that we have to alter it every...

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.

Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit.