If you have to keep something secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place!

—George Bernard Shaw

About George Bernard Shaw

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George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman...

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Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

—George Bernard Shaw

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.

—George Bernard Shaw

How close the sexes sometimes come to one another. It is as much a matter of behavior and the sphere in which they move that separates the masculine part of humanity from the feminine.

—George Bernard Shaw

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Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

—George Bernard Shaw

This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown on the scrap heap; the being a force of Nature instead of a feverish selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that the world will not devote itself to making you happy.

—George Bernard Shaw

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The best way to divulge a secret is to tell someone not to say anything about it.

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Three may keep a secret, if two of them are dead.

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To him that you tell your secret you resign your liberty.

Some secrets are meant to stay secret forever.

—Liane Moriarty in The Husband's Secret

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The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he never would be found out.

—Thomas Babington Macaulay

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