I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.

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A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.

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Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.

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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

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We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

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Brassbound [haughtily]: My men, madam, are not children in the nursery.
Lady Cicely [with unanswerable conviction]: Captain Brassbound, all men are children in the nursery. I see that you don't notice things. That poor Italian had only one proper bootlace, the other was a bit of string. And I am sure from Mr. Drinkwater's complexion that he ought to have some medicine.

famous lines from Captain Brassbound's Conversion, Act I, script by George Bernard Shaw (1900)
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

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Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.

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One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.

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Higgins: Happy is the man who can make a living by his hobby.

classic line from Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw (1912)
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The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

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Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

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Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

George Bernard Shaw in Man and Superman, 1903
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Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.

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A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

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He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.

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Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.

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The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.

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