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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• I'm only a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller. Alcohol
• Golf is typical capitalist luncay. Capitalist
• There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough. Changed
• A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to… Act
• Who are those we love? Only those we do not hate. Emotional
• Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that… Activity
• The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die. Die
• We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our… Accents
• Heartbreak is life educating us. Educating
• When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column. Column
• I have always held the religion of Muhammad in high estimation because of its wonderful vitality. It is the only religion which appears to me… Age
• I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in… Acceptable
• If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding… Always Give
• The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty. Crime
• Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head. Cannot Exist
• The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not… Consideration
• The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes, respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from Man's neck but money; and the… Cannot Soar
• Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it All
• If parents would only realize how they bore their children. Bore
• What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances. Character
• Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality. Chastity
• The worst cliques are those which consist of one man. Class
• Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics. All
• Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination. Age
• What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering. Flattering

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