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George Bernard Shaw

Read through the most famous quotes from George Bernard Shaw




There is no love sincerer than the love of food.


— George Bernard Shaw


#gluttony #love #food

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.


— George Bernard Shaw


#gain #heart #life #lose #other

People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.


— George Bernard Shaw


#doing #done #interrupt #people #say

Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!


— George Bernard Shaw


#advice #anything #knows #pope #sex

The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.


— George Bernard Shaw


#liar #lie #punishment #lie

You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.


— George Bernard Shaw


#face #glass #mirror #see #soul

The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.


— George Bernard Shaw


#humor

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.


— George Bernard Shaw


#humor

Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.


— George Bernard Shaw


#does #making #making mistakes #mistakes #never

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.


— George Bernard Shaw


#humor #optimism #pessimism #funny






About George Bernard Shaw

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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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