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George Bernard Shaw

Read through the most famous quotes from George Bernard Shaw




Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.


— George Bernard Shaw


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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.


— George Bernard Shaw


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He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.


— George Bernard Shaw


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All great truths begin as blasphemies.


— George Bernard Shaw


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A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Clever and attractive women do not want to vote; they are willing to let men govern as long as they govern men.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Just do what must be done. This may not be happiness, but it is greatness.


— George Bernard Shaw


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If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.


— George Bernard Shaw


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About George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw Quotes




Did you know about George Bernard Shaw?

After visiting the USSR in 1931 and meeting Joseph Stalin Shaw became a supporter of the Stalinist USSR. The Apple Cart (1929) was probably his most popular work of this era. Shaw's correspondence with the motion picture producer Gabriel Pascal who was the first to bring Shaw's plays successfully to the screen and who later tried to put into motion a musical adaptation of Pygmalion but died before he could realize it is publiGeorge Bernard Shawd in a book titled Bernard Shaw and Gabriel Pascal.

He is the only person to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize in Literature (1925) and an Oscar (1938) for his contributions to literature and for his work on the film Pygmalion (adaptation of his play of the same name) respectively. He became an accompliGeorge Bernard Shawd orator in the furtherance of its causes which included gaining equal rights for men and women alleviating abuses of the working class rescinding private ownership of productive land and promoting healthy lifestyles. George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics.

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