George Bernard Shaw
Ireland
26 Jul 1856 // 2 Nov 1950
Playwright / Critical
26 Jul 1856 // 2 Nov 1950
Playwright / Critical
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Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me
Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty
When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any
What we want is to see the child in pursuit of knowledge, and not knowledge in pursuit of the child
We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing
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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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