Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.

George Bernard Shaw

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The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no thirdclass carriages, and one soul is as good as another.

George Bernard Shaw


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Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it....

George Bernard Shaw

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I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.

George Bernard Shaw


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The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.

George Bernard Shaw


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No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else.

George Bernard Shaw


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But to admire a strong person
and to live under that strong person’s thumb are
two different things.

George Bernard Shaw


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La libertad supone responsabilidad.
Por eso la mayor parte de los hombres la temen tanto.

George Bernard Shaw

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It exasperated her to think that the dungeon in which she had languished for so many unhappy years had been unlocked all the time, and that the impulses she had so carefully struggled with and stifled for the sake of keeping well with society, were precisely those by which alone she could have come into any sort of sincere human contact.

George Bernard Shaw

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I have very carefully studied Islam and the life of its Prophet (PBUH). I have done so both as a student of history and as a critic. And I have come to conclusion that Muhammad (PBUH) was indeed a great man and a deliverer and benefactor of mankind which was till then writhing under the most agonising Pain.

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