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. We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence...on pain of liquidation.
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We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists.
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We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?
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We throw the whole drudgery of creation one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction
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We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way
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We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!
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What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.
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What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
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What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that
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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.
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What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game.... There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.
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What is the most precious, the most exciting smell awaiting you in the house when you return to it after a dozen years or so? The smell of roses, you think? No, moldering books.
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What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?
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What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?
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What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say ''I know'' instead of ''I am learning,'' and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.
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