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Letter "G" » George Bernard Shaw Quotes
«Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
customs, laws and customs, Laws of nature, the laws of nature, tribe
«What I say today everybody will say tomorrow, though they will not remember who put it into their heads. Indeed they will be right for I never remember who puts things into my head : it is the Zeitgeist.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
head, heads, indeed, puts, put right, Zeitgeist
«Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Poverty,
Society
| Keywords:
poverty, social, the matter, the poor, uselessness
«I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.»
«The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Poverty
| Keywords:
poverty-stricken, poverty, rich man, stricken, teeth, toothache, toothaches
«The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
England, English, English people, enormous, majorities, majority, people of England, snobs, the English
«When a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity. The distinction between crime and justice is no greater.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
calls, crime, distinction, ferocity, justice, murder, murdering, sport, sporting man, The Sporting, The Tiger, tiger
«Mark Twain and I are in the same position. We have put things in such a way as to make people, who would otherwise hang us, believe that we are joking.»
«The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes,respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Sin
| Keywords:
deadly sin, deadly sins, firing, millstones, seven deadly, Seven Deadly Sins
«Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
cease, ceases, funny, serious
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