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George Bernard Shaw

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Syllables govern the world.


— George Bernard Shaw


#syllables #world

The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.


— George Bernard Shaw


#british #except #office #soldier #stand

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.


— George Bernard Shaw


#better #cannot #dead #distinguish #eyes

The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.


— George Bernard Shaw


#energy #enough #ethical #hardly #honor

There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.


— George Bernard Shaw


#everybody #guesses #kept #secrets #than

There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.


— George Bernard Shaw


#marriage #more #nonsense #subject #talked

We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.


— George Bernard Shaw


#always #must #said #things #think

What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?


— George Bernard Shaw


#trade #unionism #virtue

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.


— George Bernard Shaw


#anything #got #hasn #man #money

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.


— George Bernard Shaw


#clear #desire #except #livelihood #man






About George Bernard Shaw

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After visiting the USSR in 1931 and meeting Joseph Stalin Shaw became a supporter of the Stalinist USSR. The Apple Cart (1929) was probably his most popular work of this era. Shaw's correspondence with the motion picture producer Gabriel Pascal who was the first to bring Shaw's plays successfully to the screen and who later tried to put into motion a musical adaptation of Pygmalion but died before he could realize it is publiGeorge Bernard Shawd in a book titled Bernard Shaw and Gabriel Pascal.

He is the only person to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize in Literature (1925) and an Oscar (1938) for his contributions to literature and for his work on the film Pygmalion (adaptation of his play of the same name) respectively. He became an accompliGeorge Bernard Shawd orator in the furtherance of its causes which included gaining equal rights for men and women alleviating abuses of the working class rescinding private ownership of productive land and promoting healthy lifestyles. George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950) was an Irish playwright and a co-founder of the London School of Economics.

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