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Letter "G" » George Bernard Shaw Quotes
«The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Church,
Humility
| Keywords:
humility
«I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it.»
«The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
anew, behaved, expected, measurement, measurements, sensibly, tailor, tailored, tailoring, The Tailor
«We must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Honesty
| Keywords:
honestly, honesty, policy
«There are only 2 qualities in the world: efficiency and inefficiency, and only 2 sorts of people: the efficient and the inefficient.»
«Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
clever, minister, prime, primed, Prime Minister, prime ministers, Prime Minister of, Shakespeare
«Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
disgusted, fiery, merits, reluctant, shopkeeper, shopkeepers, shrivel, shriveled, shrivels, shrivel up, the press, wither
«Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
automatically, defectives, exempt, exempted, juries, jury, jury duty, lawyers
«I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
constipated, looked, manner, nude, nudes, photographer, photographers, posed, poses, posing, Rodin, thinker
«A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Criticism
| Keywords:
drama critic
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