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Person Quotes by George Bernard Shaw
- A modern gentleman [rich person] is necessarily the enemy of his country. Even in war he does not fight to defend it, but to prevent…
- A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and…
- Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.
- A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.
- All progress depends upon the unreasonable person.
- It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be…
- People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that…
- A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.
- It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
- Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.
- But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things.
- The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison,…
- The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because…
- The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old…
- Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in…
- Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
More Person Quotes
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- My mother is the coolest, most amazing person I know. — J. J. Abrams
- I gave my life to become the person I am right now. Was it worth it? — Richard Bach
- The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ. — Karen Armstrong
- A boo is a lot louder than a cheer. If you have 10 people cheering and one person booing, all you hear… — Lance Armstrong
- As filmmakers, we can show where a person's mind goes, as opposed to theater, which is more to sit back and watch… — Darren Aronofsky
- I think it's important as a filmmaker, as any person working in the arts, that you've got to try new stuff and… — Darren Aronofsky
- No matter how busy you are, you must take time to make the other person feel important. — Mary Kay Ash
- Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not… — Mary Kay Ash
- Criticize the act, not the person. — Mary Kay Ash
- A wise person decides slowly but abides by these decisions. — Arthur Ashe