George Bernard Shaw
Irish-English writer and critic
Lived from: 1856 - 1950
Category: Media | Writers (Contemporary) Country: 
United Kingdom
Born: 26 july 1856 Died: 2 november 1950
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If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentlemen, he may pronounce as he pleases.
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If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.
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If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.
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If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.
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If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.
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If you cannot have what you believe in you must believe in what you have.
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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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If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not an example.
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If you strike a child, take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.
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If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.
Saint Joan (1924)― George Bernard Shaw -
If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.
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If you value a man's regard, strive with him. As to liking, you like your newspaper - and despise it.
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Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire; you will what you imagine; and at last you create what you will.
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Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.
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In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
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In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
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In Heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
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In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.
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In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.
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In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine.
― George Bernard Shaw
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