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.
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Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.
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Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
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Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy
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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
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Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
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Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
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People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.
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People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them
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People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
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People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got: everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them
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People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them
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Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
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Physically there is nothing to distinguish human society from the farm-yard except that children are more troublesome and costly than chickens and calves and that men and women are not so completely enslaved as farm stock.
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Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.
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