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George Bernard Shaw

Read through the most famous quotes from George Bernard Shaw




Don't think you can frighten me by telling me that I am alone. France is alone. God is alone. And the loneliness of God is His strength.


— George Bernard Shaw


#god #life #lonely #life

You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.


— George Bernard Shaw


#love #men #love

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.


— George Bernard Shaw


#dreams

Lack of money is the root of all evil.


— George Bernard Shaw


#lack #money #root

You see things and ask “Why?”; I dream things that never were and ask “Why not?


— George Bernard Shaw


#inspirational #successful-mind #dreams

Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.


— George Bernard Shaw


#anesthesia #endure #life #operation #which

Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness


— George Bernard Shaw


#irreverence #humor

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more


— George Bernard Shaw


#science

[H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.


— George Bernard Shaw


#barbarism #customs #law #nature #self-centered

Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.


— George Bernard Shaw


#jealousy






About George Bernard Shaw

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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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