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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Whisky is liquid sunshine.
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Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.
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Woman reduces us all to a common denominator.
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Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men.
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Write your Sad times in Sand,
Write your Good times in Stone.― George Bernard Shaw -
You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.
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You don't learn to hold your own in the world by standing on guard, but by attacking and getting well hammered yourself.
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You have no right to say that I am not sincere. I have found a happiness in art that real life has never given me. I am intensely in earnest about art. There is is a magic and mystery in art that you know nothing of.
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You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and believe anything.
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You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.
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You see things as they are and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'
Back To Methuselah (1921)― George Bernard Shaw -
You will never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
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You will think less of the art, when you know the artist.
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You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
O'Flaherty V.C. (1919)― George Bernard Shaw -
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
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Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
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Youth is wasted on the young.
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Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
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Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.
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Home is the girl's prison.
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