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George Bernard Shaw

Read through the most famous quotes from George Bernard Shaw




The single biggest problem with communication is the illusion that it has taken place.


— George Bernard Shaw


#misunderstanding #communication

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it....


— George Bernard Shaw


#identity #nation #nationalism #politics #political

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.


— George Bernard Shaw


#universal-truths #inspirational

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.


— George Bernard Shaw


#religion #humor

War does not decide who is right but who is left.


— George Bernard Shaw


#war #morals

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


— George Bernard Shaw


#ignorance #politicians #politics #career

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.


— George Bernard Shaw


#bright #clean #keep #must #see

When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.


— George Bernard Shaw


#truth #funny

Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.


— George Bernard Shaw


#desire #expression #horizontal #perpendicular

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.


— George Bernard Shaw


#ferocity #him #man #murder #tiger






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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