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George Bernard Shaw quotes

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

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George Bernard Shaw quote: "The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people."
The secret to success is to offend the greatest number of people. George Bernard Shaw
Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it.... George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw quote: "The best way to get your point across is to entertain."
The best way to get your point across is to entertain. George Bernard Shaw
Yes, because to be treated as a boy was to be taken on the old footing. I had become a new person; and those who knew the old person laughed at me. The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor: he took my measure anew every time he saw me, whilst the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me. George Bernard Shaw
The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes. George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw quote: "A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into..."
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. George Bernard Shaw
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, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces. George Bernard Shaw
BRITANNUS (shocked). Caesar: this is not proper. THEODOTUS (outraged). How! CAESAR (recovering his self-possession). Pardon him. Theodotus: he is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature. George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw quote: "He who has never hoped can never despair. Caesar, in good or..."
He who has never hoped can never despair. Caesar, in good or bad fortune, looks his fate in the face. George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw quote: "Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have..."
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us. George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw quote: "A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell."
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell. George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw quote: "When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did..."
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work. George Bernard Shaw
The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often. George Bernard Shaw
The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child prison, engages a number of employee schoolmasters as turnkeys, and covers up the essential cruelty and unnaturalness of the situation by torturing the children if they do not learn, and calling this process, which is within the capacity of any fool or blackguard, by the sacred name of Teaching. George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw quote: "Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good..."
Thus, I blush to add, you can not be a philosopher and a good man, though you may be a philosopher and a great one. George Bernard Shaw

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