George Bernard Shaw
Ireland
26 Jul 1856 // 2 Nov 1950
Playwright / Critical
26 Jul 1856 // 2 Nov 1950
Playwright / Critical
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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
Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself
Beware of false knowledge; it is more dangerous than ignorance
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
Beauty is a short-lived tyranny
An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
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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."
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