George Bernard Shaw
Ireland
26 Jul 1856 // 2 Nov 1950
Playwright / Critical
26 Jul 1856 // 2 Nov 1950
Playwright / Critical
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The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life
The golden rule is that there are no golden rules
The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one
The art of government is the organisation of idolatry
Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get
Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time
Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn
She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech
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On Anger: "For every minute you remain angry, you give up sixty seconds of peace of mind."
Essays
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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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