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Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.
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[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
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A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
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The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.
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You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.
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That is the injustice of a woman's lot. A woman has to bring up her children; and that means to restrain them, to deny them things they want, to set them tasks, to punish them when they do wrong, to do all the unpleasant things. And then the father, who has nothing to do but pet them and spoil them, comes in when all her work is done and steals their affection from her.
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The great secret, Eliza, is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls: in short, behaving as if you were in Heaven, where there are no thirdclass carriages, and one soul is as good as another.
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It is greatly to Mrs Patrick Campbell's credit that, bad as the play was, her acting was worse.
Review of Sardou Fedora 1 June 1895
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Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.
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We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!
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The greatest of our evils and the worst of our crimes is poverty.
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All censorships exist to prevent anyone 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 censorship.
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When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
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Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.
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Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice.
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Plato long ago pointed out the importance of being governed by men with sufficient sense of responsibility and comprehension of public duties to be very reluctant to undertake the work of governing.
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Liza: My aunt died of influenza: so they said … But it's my belief (as how) they done the old woman in.
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I exclude the hypothesis of complete originality on [Charles] Lever's part, because a man can no more be completely original in that sense than a tree can grow out of air.
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Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.
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A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.
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THE HE-ANCIENT:
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth
STREPHON:
Yes; and take all the fun out of it.
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They have accepted the burden of eternal life. They have taken the agony from birth; and their life does not fail them even in the hour of their destruction.
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Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.
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Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus.
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In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
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Time and trouble will tame an advanced young woman, but an advanced old woman is uncontrollable by any earthly force.
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Born:
July 26, 1856
Died:
November 2, 1950
(aged 94)
Bio:
George Bernard Shaw was a Nobel Prize and Oscar-winning Irish playwright, critic and socialist whose influence on Western theatre, culture and politics stretched from the 1880s to his death in 1950.
Known for:
Pygmalion (1913)
Man and Superman (1903)
Major Barbara (1905)
Arms and the Man (1906)
Saint Joan (1924)
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