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Quotes from John Bull's Other Island — George Bernard Shaw

1856–1950 Ireland

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4 quotes

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.

John Bull's Other Island (1907)

You cannot be a hero without being a coward.

John Bull's Other Island (1907)

A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a nation's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.

John Bull's Other Island (1907)

What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

John Bull's Other Island (1907)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: George Bernard Shaw (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.