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George Bernard Shaw

Read through the most famous quotes from George Bernard Shaw




Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.


— George Bernard Shaw


#hatred #revenge

Alcohol is the anethesia by which we endure the operation of life.


— George Bernard Shaw


#drinking #life

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.


— George Bernard Shaw


#any #books #censorship #completeness #ends

Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.


— George Bernard Shaw


#make #reality #unbearable #without #world

The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.


— George Bernard Shaw


#vegetarianism #food

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.


— George Bernard Shaw


#dread #liberty #means #most #responsibility

The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.


— George Bernard Shaw


#her #lacks #power #she #speech

In heaven an angel is no one in particular.


— George Bernard Shaw


#life

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.


— George Bernard Shaw


#sensibility #change

A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.


— George Bernard Shaw


#cod #fish #humor #images #inspirational






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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