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George Bernard Shaw

Read through the most famous quotes from George Bernard Shaw




You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.


— George Bernard Shaw


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All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.


— George Bernard Shaw


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The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.


— George Bernard Shaw


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I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.


— George Bernard Shaw


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It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.


— George Bernard Shaw


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Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.


— 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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