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George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

Irish-English writer and critic

Lived from: 1856 - 1950

Category: Media | Writers (Contemporary) Country: FlagUnited Kingdom

Born: 26 july 1856 Died: 2 november 1950

  • Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.
  • The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.
  • Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?
  • Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.
  • How can you dare teach a man to read until you've taught him everything else first?
  • The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.
  • Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.
  • Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice.
  • He didn't dare to, because his father had a weak heart and habitually threatened to drop dead if anybody hurt his feelings. You may have noticed that people with weak hearts are the tyrants of English married life.
  • Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.
  • Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.
  • I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
  • You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and believe anything.
  • A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
  • It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
  • All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.
  • Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.
  • The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.
  • Opera is when a tenor and soprano want to make love, but are prevented from doing so by a baritone.
  • Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid... There is no harm in a well-fed lion. It has no ideals, no sect, no party.
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  • Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside.
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  • If you go to Heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy yourself there.
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  • In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
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  • In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.
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  • The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.
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  • The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.
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  • The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be n hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.
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  • To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.
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What are the most famous quotes from George Bernard Shaw?

The two most famous quotes from George Bernard Shaw are:

  • "Heaven, as conventionally conceived, is a place so inane, so dull, so useless, so miserable that nobody has ever ventured to describe a whole day in heaven, though plenty of people have described a day at the seaside."
  • "If you go to Heaven without being naturally qualified for it you will not enjoy yourself there."

When did George Bernard Shaw live?

George Bernard Shaw was born in 1856 and died in the year 1950.