#al

Like a lot of Irish households we read a lot of Irish history. It was almost Soviet, raising the next generation with a mythic view of their history. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#generation #history #households #irish #like

My mother adores singing and plays piano. My uncle was a phenomenal pianist. My brother John is a double bassist. I used to play the piano, badly, and cello. My brother Peter played violin. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#badly #bassist #brother #cello #double

There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing. ↗

— Fiona Shaw

#did #i #lot #performing #professional

A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#always #depend #government #paul #pay

If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#experience #happens #history #history repeats itself #how

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

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

— George Bernard Shaw

#anesthesia #endure #life #operation #which

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#matter #our time #poor #poverty #questions

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

— George Bernard Shaw

#clearly #everything #knows #nothing #points

Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#conceal #hear #imperfections #men #other