689 ordspråk av George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw föddes den
26 juli 1856 och dog den 2 november
1950 - 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature.
Mer info via Google eller Bing. I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like a state of continual becoming with a goal in front and not behind
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I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
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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.
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I flatly declare that a man fed on whisky and dead bodies cannot do the finest work of which he is capable
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I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.
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I have made it so perfectly clear in my tracts, articles, and books what was to be done that all Parliament has had to do was read my works and do the opposite
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I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit
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I have to live for others and not for myself; that's middle class morality
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I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.
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I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it.
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I learned to speak as people learn to skate or cycle, by doggedly making a fool of myself until I got used to it
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I like a bit of a mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog; they're the best for every day
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I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads and keep them in bowls of water around the house.
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I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going
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I myself have been particularly careful never to say a civil word to the United States. I have scoffed at their inhabitants as a nation of villagers. I have defined the 100 % American as 99 % an idiot. And they adore me.
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