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Letter "G" » George Bernard Shaw Quotes
«When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
abnormal, continuously, delusive, excited, exhausting, insane, required, swear, transient, violent, violent death
«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.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
act on, clear, livelihood, stage, The Stage
«The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Lies
| Keywords:
believed, in the least, least, liar, punishment
«Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Foolishness
| Keywords:
direct, folly, pursuit
«Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Marriage
| Keywords:
alliance, entered, sleep with
«Criminals do not die by the hands of the law; they die by the hands of other men»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
criminals, criminal law, law, The Criminals, The Law
«Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Silence
| Keywords:
expression, scorn, scorning
«All great truths begin as blasphemies.»
«Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.»
«Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Education,
Teachers and teaching
| Keywords:
attitudes, critical, Critical thinking, discovery, intellectual, social, stimulating
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