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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Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.
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Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
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Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.
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Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
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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.
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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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Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.
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Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
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Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
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Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.
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Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
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Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.
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Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
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Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
Fanny's First Play 85― George Bernard Shaw -
Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
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Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.
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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.
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Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married.
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Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.
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Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.
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