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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• My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately Accounts
• There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents… Best
• Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation. Flatters
• If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race. End
• The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot… Aristocracy
• Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be… Both
• To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard… Brain
• It is easy - terribly easy - to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is… Advantage
• Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites. Animal
• My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion. Dear
• Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake. Always Delayed
• Be like the sun and meadow, which are not in the least concerned about the coming winter. Coming
• People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good. Adopt
• The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs. England
• Brigham Young lived to become immortal in history as an American Moses by leading his people through the wilderness into an unpromised land. American
• The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent. Best
• Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it. Anyone
• The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding. Apt
• What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity. All
• A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything… Art
• Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation. Bring
• It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief. Belief
• The notion that inspiration is something that happened thousands of years ago, and was then finished and done with. . . the theory that God… Ago
• Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do Children
• What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead… Activity

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