689 ordspråk av George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw föddes den July 26th 1856 och dog den 2 November 1950 - 1925 Nobel Prize for Literature.
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 (Democracy is a government) of the fools, for the fools, by the fools. |
| [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. |
| A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income. |
| A child hasn't a grown-up person's appetite for affection. A little of it goes a long way with them; and they like a good imitation of it better than the real thing, as every nurse knows. |
| A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care. |
| A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned. |
| A family enjoying the unspeakable peace and freedom of being orphans |
| A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic. |
| A father is someone who carries pictures in his wallet where his money used to be |
| A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. |
| A genius can't be forced; nor can you make an ape an alderman. |
| A genius is a person who is seeing further and probing deeper than other people has a different set of ethical valuations from their and has energy enough to give effect to this extra vision and its valuations in whatever manner best suits his or her |
| A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out. |
| A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul. |
| A happy family is but an earlier heaven. |
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