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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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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw





Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
George Bernard Shaw





Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.
George Bernard Shaw





The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
George Bernard Shaw





The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
George Bernard Shaw





Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die do not outlive yourself.
George Bernard Shaw





Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.
George Bernard Shaw





Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
George Bernard Shaw





Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.
George Bernard Shaw





Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
George Bernard Shaw





It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
George Bernard Shaw





It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
George Bernard Shaw





A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
George Bernard Shaw





Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
George Bernard Shaw





Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
George Bernard Shaw





The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
George Bernard Shaw





She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
George Bernard Shaw





Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
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What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
George Bernard Shaw





It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.
George Bernard Shaw





Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
George Bernard Shaw





When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
George Bernard Shaw





Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
George Bernard Shaw





My reputation grows with every failure.
George Bernard Shaw





Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire the other is to get it.
George Bernard Shaw





When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.
George Bernard Shaw





One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
George Bernard Shaw





Hell is full of musical amateurs.
George Bernard Shaw





Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
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Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
George Bernard Shaw






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