Virtue consists not in abstaining from vice but in not desiring it.
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George Bernard Shaw
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Works
Books and titles linked to this author
Advice to a Young Critic
Androcles and the Lion
Authors on Film
Back to Methuselah
Caesar and Cleopatra
Candida
Dramatic opinions and essays
Dramatic Opinions and Essays, volume 2
Fanny's First Play
Getting Married
Heartbreak House
Immaturity
John Bull's Other Island
Major Barbara
Man and Superman
Misalliance
Misalliance/The Dark Lady of the Sonnets/Fanny's First Play with a Treatise on Parents and Children
Mrs. Warren's Profession
Music in London
My Fair Lady
Overruled
Pygmalion
Pygmalion and Related Readings
Saint Joan
The Doctor's Dilemma: A Tragedy
The Intelligent Woman's Guide to Socialism and Capitalism
The Irrational Knot
The Philanderer
The Political Madhouse in America and Nearer Home
The Quintessence of Ibsenism
Quotes
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My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
All great truths began as blasphemies.
I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.
He who can does. He who can't teaches.
Never resist temptation: prove all things: hold fast that which is good.
Success covers a multitude of blunders.
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: wlien the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.
If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman he may pronounce as he pleases.
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
Englishmen never will be slaves they are free to do whatever the Government and public opinion allow them to do.
I believe in the discipline of silence and could talk for hours about it.
We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us ashamed of ourselves of our relatives of our incomes of our accents of our opinion of our experience just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.