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George Bernard Shaw

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I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.


— George Bernard Shaw


#abroad #am #dislike #feeling #home

One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.


— George Bernard Shaw


#always #beat #haven #knows #man

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.


— George Bernard Shaw


#work #life

She had lost the art of conversation, but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.


— George Bernard Shaw


#art

Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.


— George Bernard Shaw


#any #cease #ceases #die #does

The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.


— George Bernard Shaw


#money #poverty #money

What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child.


— George Bernard Shaw


#knowledge #youth #education

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.


— George Bernard Shaw


#men #women #business

What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.


— George Bernard Shaw


#education #education

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?


— George Bernard Shaw


#hell #music #music






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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