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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• You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can… Answer
• Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to… Been
• At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world. Atheism
• Imagination is the beginning of creation. Beginning
• The nation's morals are like its teeth: the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them. Culture
• We are members one of another; so that you cannot injure or help your neighbor without injuring or helping yourself. Cannot Injure
• The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. Children
• All professions are conspiracies against the laity. All
• You accepted Allah or you had your throat cut by someone who did accept him, and who went to Paradise for having sent you to… Accept
• I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases. Children
• What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it. Calls
• It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity. Creatures
• Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well. All
• I have studied him - the wonderful man - and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be called the saviour of… Anti
• You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are my… Across
• It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of… Dashed
• Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material. Building
• Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph. Admire
• I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for… Adoration
• Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die. Alive
• The churches must learn humility as well as teach it. Church
• Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing -a warfare accomplished,… Accomplished
• Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. From
• Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that… Conduct
• Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning. Audacious

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