Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

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A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.

A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the...

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the...

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes...

Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes...

Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of...

Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of...

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever...

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever...

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.

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

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

Woman reduces us all to a common denomination

Woman reduces us all to a common denomination

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

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...

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

Most people do not pray; they only beg.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

Very few people can afford to be poor.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a great refuge from home life.

The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a great refuge from home life.

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and...

The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and...

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without...

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without...

The evil to be attacked is not sin, suffering, greed, priesthood, kingcraft, demagogy, monopoly, ignorance,...

The evil to be attacked is not sin, suffering, greed, priesthood, kingcraft, demagogy, monopoly, ignorance,...

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment...

Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment...

The one irrefutable lesson of the entire postwar period [is] contradicting the notion that rigid...

The one irrefutable lesson of the entire postwar period [is] contradicting the notion that rigid...

One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one...

One father is enough to govern one hundred sons, but not a hundred sons one...