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George Bernard Shaw
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Biography : Irish playwright critic and polemicis.
Born: 1856 - Died: 1950
Period:
20th century
19th century
Place of birth: United Kingdom
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If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
George Bernard Shaw





Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
George Bernard Shaw





The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
George Bernard Shaw





First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
George Bernard Shaw





A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
George Bernard Shaw





Power does not corrupt men fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
George Bernard Shaw





The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
George Bernard Shaw





A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
George Bernard Shaw





We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
George Bernard Shaw





All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
George Bernard Shaw





Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
George Bernard Shaw





I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
George Bernard Shaw





Beauty is all very well at first sight but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
George Bernard Shaw





The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
George Bernard Shaw





No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
George Bernard Shaw





Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
George Bernard Shaw





You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
George Bernard Shaw





Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
George Bernard Shaw





Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
George Bernard Shaw





The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
George Bernard Shaw





We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.
George Bernard Shaw





Clever and attractive women do not want to vote they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.
George Bernard Shaw





Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
George Bernard Shaw





There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
George Bernard Shaw





We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
George Bernard Shaw





I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
George Bernard Shaw





We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
George Bernard Shaw





Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw





Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
George Bernard Shaw





Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
George Bernard Shaw






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