George Bernard Shaw
Ireland
26 Jul 1856 // 2 Nov 1950
Playwright / Critical
26 Jul 1856 // 2 Nov 1950
Playwright / Critical
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Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough
Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it
Every man over forty is a scoundrel
Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed
Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same
Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve
Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire
Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
Essays
On Destiny: "Our destiny exercises its influence over us even when, as yet, we have not learned its nature: it is our future that lays down the law of our today."
Human, All Too Human
Human, All Too Human
On Friendship: "A crowd is not company; and faces are but a gallery of pictures; and talk but a tinkling cymbal, where there is no love."
Essays
Essays