George Bernard Shaw Quotes

1.3K quotes · Playwright, Critic

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George Bernard Shaw Quotes

All Philosophical Angry Funny Wise Creative 1.3K quotes · page 21 of 50

George Bernard Shaw

Playwright, Critic

Determined

“The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.”

Inspirational Life Success

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George Bernard Shaw

Playwright, Critic

Funny

“The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.”

Knowledge Fundamentals Assumption

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Funny

“It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.”

Age Time

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Funny

“The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.”

Religion Atheist

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Angry

“War does not decide who is right but who is left.”

War Doe Morality

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Funny

“I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.”

God Humor

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Regretful

“All progress means war with society.”

Mean War

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Creative

“A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.”

Children Art Mother

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Philosophical

“A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.”

Purpose Expectations Miracle

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Wise

“It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.”

Style Force

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Angry

“Truth telling is not compatible with the defence of the realm.”

Honesty Telling The Truth

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Creative

“In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.”

Struggle Ambition Novices

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