She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

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We don't stop playing because we grow old; We grow old because we stop playing.

We don't stop playing because we grow old; We grow old because we stop playing.

All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry....

All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry....

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to...

Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to...

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven...

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven...

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one...

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one...

But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell...

But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell...

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.

The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have...

All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have...

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.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.

He who has never hoped can never despair

He who has never hoped can never despair

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse

If everybody minded their own business, said the Duchess in a hoarse growl, the world...

If everybody minded their own business, said the Duchess in a hoarse growl, the world...

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.

In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured,...

In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured,...

Science... never solves a problem without creating ten more.

Science... never solves a problem without creating ten more.

My door is always open-bring me your problems. This is guaranteed to turn on every...

My door is always open-bring me your problems. This is guaranteed to turn on every...

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.

If a problem cannot be solved, enlarge it.

Problems only exist in the human mind.

Problems only exist in the human mind.

What we might call, by way of eminence, the Dismal Science

What we might call, by way of eminence, the Dismal Science