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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..."
"I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can."
"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 measurements."
"I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy."
"Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week."
"Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open."
"If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary."
"If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies."
"Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men."
"Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."
"He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches."
"Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power."
"I believe in the discipline of silence, and could talk for hours about it."
"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance."
"Lack of money is the root of of all evil."
"England and America are two countries separated by the same language."
"A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid."
"A learned man is an idler who kills time by study."
"Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare."
"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 opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins."