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1856–1950 Ireland
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist with a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory. He wrote more than sixty plays, including such works as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1913) and Saint Joan (1923).
Ireland Academics Nobel laureates Novelists Playwrights Also known as: Bernard Shaw, G. B. Shaw, G.B. Shaw, George bernhard shaw, Shaw, Shaw, George Bernard
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Then the first man who had the gumption to see that we might get up on our legs and defy all those old treaties, he would be the most popular man in England. There can be no peace in the world until there is peace between England, France, Germany, Russia, the United States and all the big powers of the West. Now take that home and think about it and don't be frightened any more about the Germans.
About the Treaty of Versailles (1935)
This craving for bouquets by Jews is a symptom of racial degeneration. The Jews are worse than my own people. Those Jews who still want to be the chosen race (chosen by the late Lord Balfour) can go to Palestine and stew in their own juice. The rest had better stop being Jews and start being human beings.
The man who has graduated from the flogging block at Eton to the bench from which he sentences the garrotter to be flogged is the same social product as the garrotter who has been kicked by his father and cuffed by his mother until he has grown strong enough to throttle and rob the rich citizen whose money he desires.
Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
England and America are two countries divided [separated] by a common [the same] language.
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You can't make a man a Christian unless you first make him believe he is a sinner.
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Success does not consist in never making blunders, but in never making the same one a second time.
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The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.
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Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.
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The Bible is most dangerous book ever written on earth, keep it under lock and key.
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If you're going to tell people the truth, you better make them laugh; otherwise they'll kill you.
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In my view, Anglo-Irish history is for Englishmen to remember, for Irishmen to forget.
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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
Misattributed The attribution to Shaw comes from Leadership Skills for Managers (2000)
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
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The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.
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If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
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I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig. ... You get dirty and besides the pig likes it.
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George Bernard Shaw is said to have told W.S.C.:
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Despite her failure, she persisted, and one day sent Shaw a card inviting him to tea. It read: “Lady X will be at home Thursday between 4 and 6” . . . Shaw sent it back with the comment: “Mr. Bernard Shaw likewise.”
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A: Would you sleep with me for $1,000,000?
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