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George Bernard Shaw

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Every man over forty is a scoundrel.


— George Bernard Shaw


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I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.


— George Bernard Shaw


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If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.


— George Bernard Shaw


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The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.


— George Bernard Shaw


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An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.


— George Bernard Shaw


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I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.


— George Bernard Shaw


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About George Bernard Shaw

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Did you know about George Bernard Shaw?

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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