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George Bernard Shaw quotes

Irish Playwright, Writer July 26, 1856 – November 2, 1950

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Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true. George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw quote: "If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens,..."
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw quote: "What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he..."
What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car? George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw quote: "Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference..."
Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another. George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw quote: "A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the..."
A book is like a child: it is easier to bring it into the world than to control it when it is launched there. George Bernard Shaw
I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it. George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw quote: "If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object..."
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example. George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw quote: "We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy..."
We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money. George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw quote: "The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand..."
The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine. George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw quote: "We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five..."
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation. George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw quote: "It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible,..."
It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man'sto keep unmarried as long as he can. George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw quote: "Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire."
Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire. George Bernard Shaw
I'm glad he's hungry. Not that I want him to suffer, poor chap! But then he'll enjoy eating me much more. There's a cheerful side to everything. George Bernard Shaw
Style is a sort of melody that comes into my sentences by itself. If a writer says what he has to say as accurately and effectively as he can, his style will take care of itself. George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw quote: "Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that..."
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. George Bernard Shaw

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