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George Bernard Shaw
 
Date of birth: 26 July 1856
Date of death: 02 November 1950
Country Of Origin: Ireland
Profession:

Playwright

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   George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) was born in Dublin, the son of a civil servant. His education was irregular, due to his dislike of any organized training. After working in an estate agent's office for a while he moved to London as a young man (1876), where he established himself as a leading music and theatre critic in the eighties and nineties and became a prominent member of the Fabian Society, for which he composed many pamphlets. He began his literary career as a novelist; as a ferven .... (More...)
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" A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor liess, and the man who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether he be painter or ploughman. "

George Bernard Shaw
" A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic. "

George Bernard Shaw
" A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education. "

George Bernard Shaw
" A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing. "

George Bernard Shaw
" A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it; it would be hell on earth. "

George Bernard Shaw
" Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them. "

George Bernard Shaw
" An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country. "

George Bernard Shaw
" Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men. "

George Bernard Shaw
" Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve. "

George Bernard Shaw
" England and America are two countries separated by a common language. "

George Bernard Shaw
" Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough. "

George Bernard Shaw
" Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week. "

George Bernard Shaw
" Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich--something for nothing. "

George Bernard Shaw
" Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history. "

George Bernard Shaw
" Hell is full of musical amateurs. "

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