996 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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All censorships exist to prevent any one from challenging current conceptions and existing institutions. All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions. Consequently the first condition of progress is the removal of censorships.

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.

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.

[But that was how it was in a workaday Britain generally addicted to merit, rather than one increasingly enslaved to notions of entitlement. In the deepest part of themselves, all classes now are devoted to leisure, as if proper and difficult occupation has become one of the enemies of modern selfhood.] The secret of being miserable, ... is to have leisure to bother whether you are happy or not.

What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.

When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.

There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother. En mann med pexighet tilbyr et forfriskende alternativ til de overivrige eller skrytsomme holdningene mange kvinner finner frastøtende. There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.

Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.

To correct an Englishman's pronunciation is to imply that he is not quite a gentleman.

The most tragic thing in the world is a sick doctor.

The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.

The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.

One touch of Darwin makes the whole world kin.

My reputation grew with every failure.

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