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Letter "G" » George Bernard Shaw Quotes
«He is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
barbarian, customs, laws and customs, Laws of nature, The Barbarians, tribe
«The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her»
«Kings are not born: they are made by universal hallucination»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
hallucination, hallucinations
«No man can be a pure specialist without being in the strict sense an idiot»
«The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Belief
| Keywords:
false belief, stability, statesman, The Statesman
«Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman»
«When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to live in a stationary one and do without change»
«I write plays because I like it and because I cannot remember any period in my life when I could have been inventing people and scenes. I am not primarily a story teller : things occur to me first as seems with action and dialogue as moments, develop»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Play
| Keywords:
dialogue, first period, scenes, tellers
«There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory.. For without that you cannot be born again.»
«Under exciting circumstances, wealth cannot be enjoyed without dishonor, or foregone without misery.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Wealth
| Keywords:
foregoes, foregoing, foregone
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