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George Bernard Shaw
Age: 94 †
Born: 1856
Born: July 26
Died: 1950
Died: November 2
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Bible worship, though at its best it may achieve sublimity by keeping its head in the skies, may also make itself both ridiculousand dangerous by having its feet off the ground.
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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 man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.
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I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.
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In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every private employer a dictator, every financier a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at his mercy, and no public responsibility.
George Bernard Shaw
What we are confronted with now is a growing perception that if we desire a certain type of civilization and culture we must exterminate the sort of people who do not fit into it.
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Am reserving two tickets for you for my premiere. Come and bring a friend - if you have one. Telegram inviting Winston Churchill to opening night of Pygmalion. Churchill wired back: Impossible to be present for the first performance. Will attend the second - if there is one.
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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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The notion that the colonel need be a better man than the private is as confused as the notion that the keystone need be stronger than the coping stone.
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God made the world as an artist and that is why the world must learn from its artists.
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I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.
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The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.
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A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.
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Journalists are too poorly paid in this country to know anything that is fit for publication.
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Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
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Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money.
George Bernard Shaw
Those who won't hesitate to vivisect, won't hesitate to lie about it as well.
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Life is a disease and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.
George Bernard Shaw
People have pointed out evidences of personal feeling in my notices as if they were accusing me of a misdemeanor, not knowing that criticism written without personal feeling is not worth reading. It is the capacity for making good or bad art a personal matter that makes a man a critic.
George Bernard Shaw
There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
George Bernard Shaw
