Quote #5

We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.

More from George Bernard Shaw

  1. I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler. I don't like beer.
  2. The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.
  3. We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
  4. My specialty is being right when other people are wrong.
  5. My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
  6. There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
  7. The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe any one else.
  8. You're not a man, you're a machine.

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