Quotes by George Bernard Shaw

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

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  • A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.
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  • A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.
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  • A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
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  • A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people.
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  • A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend upon the support of Paul.
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  • A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
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  • A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
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  • A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
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  • A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
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  • A man who has no office to go to - I don't care who he is - is a trial of which you can have no conception.
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  • A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.
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  • A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.
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  • A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.
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  • A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future.
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  • A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith.
    Saint Joan (1924)
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  • A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.
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  • A perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
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  • A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
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  • A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
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  • A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
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