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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Most people do not pray; they only beg.
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Music is the brandy of the damned.
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My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately
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My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.
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My heart, my heart, be whole and free: Love is thine only enemy.
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My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.
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My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
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My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.
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My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about.
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My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.
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My reputation grew with every failure.
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My reputation grows with every failure.
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My specialty is being right when other people are wrong.
You Never Can Tell , Act IV― George Bernard Shaw -
My way of joking is to tell the truth.
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Napoleon: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. Giuseppe: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.
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New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.
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Newspaper: A device unable to distinguish between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilisation.
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No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.
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No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot.
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No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect.
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