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George Bernard Shaw

Read through the most famous quotes from George Bernard Shaw




Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.


— George Bernard Shaw


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The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.


— George Bernard Shaw


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The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.


— George Bernard Shaw


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There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.


— George Bernard Shaw


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He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Martyrdom: The only way a man can become famous without ability.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Property is organized robbery.


— 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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