George Bernard Shaw ✓

(1856–1950) playwright United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland

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[Wikidata] Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist (1856–1950)... | [Wikipedia] George Bernard Shaw, known at his insistence as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man

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• If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves. Better
• My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School… Appear
• Manners are more important than laws and upon them, to a great deal, the law depends.... Deal
• Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age… Age
• God is on the side of the big battalions. Battalions
• It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him. Despise
• An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country. American
• We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners. Bother
• I appeal to the chemists to discover a humane gas that will kill instantly and painlessly. In short- a gentlemanly gas deadly by all means,… All
• The moment we face it frankly we are driven to the conclusion that the community has a right to put a price on the right… Community
• A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care. Care
• Beware of the man whose God is in the skies. Beware
• A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her. Able
• Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion. Emotional
• Remember that I too am mortal. Funny
• 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… Certain
• You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of them will tell… Easily
• A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and… Best
• The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist Exist
• People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them Everybody
• There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject Every Possible
• The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged… Addicted
• I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated. Constipated
• An Englishman does everything on principle: he fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles. Business
• Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them. Allow

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