George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw

Playwright, Critic

George Bernard Shaw was a playwright and critic known for his sharp wit and social critiques, particularly in works like 'Pygmalion' and 'Saint Joan.'

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Born
July 26, 1856
Died
November 2, 1950
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"Hollywood keeps before its child audiences a string of glorified young heroes, everyone of whom is an unhesitating and violent Anarchist. His one answer to everything that annoys him or disparages his country or his parents or his young lady or his personal code of manly conduct is to give the offender a "sock" in the jaw.... My observation leads me to believe that it is not the virtuous people who are good at socking jaws."

Country Children Believe
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"Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow."

Father Skins Fool
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"No elaboration of physical or moral accomplishment can atone for the sin of parasitism."

Accomplishment Moral Sin
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"Somemenare bornkings; and someare bornstatesmen. The two are seldom the same."

Two
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"Vitality is a woman is a blind fury of creation."

Women Vitality Blind
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"Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's."

Inspirational Women Motherhood
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"The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy."

Philosophy World Fool
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"Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up."

Mean Progress Scripture
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"HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man? DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me."

Men Moral Poor
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"It is well to be off with the old woman before you're on with the new."

Women Divorce Wells
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"I fought linotype and montype for some time because it would not justify as well as handset could be made to do; but at last, as always happens, the machine outdid the hand, and got all the best types on it."

Hands Design Machines
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"The shot Irishmen will now take their places beside Emmet and the Manchester Martyrs in Ireland, and beside the heroes of Poland and Sérbia and Belgium in Europe; and nothing in heaven or earth can prevent it."

Hero Europe Heaven
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"Nationalism must now be added to the refuse pile of superstitions. We are now citizens of the world, and the man who divides the race into elect Irishmen and reprobate foreign devils (especially Englishmen) had better live on the Blaskets where he can admire himself without disturbance."

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"I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's up agen middle class morality all the time.... What is middle class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything."

Mean Men Thinking
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"If we have come to think that the nursery and the kitchen are the natural sphere of a woman, we have done so exactly as English children come to think that a cage is the natural sphere of a parrot: because they have never seen one anywhere else."

Children Thinking Kitchen
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"You're only a beginner; and what you think is love, and interest, and all that, is not real love at all: three quarters of it is only unsatisfied curiosity."

Real Thinking Curiosity
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"Whenever I see the word Operation, especially Trifling Operation, I at once write off the patient as dead."

Writing Patient Operations
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"O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do."

Country Home Sitting
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"Not until he acquires European manners does the American anarchist become the gentleman who assures you that people cannot be mademoral by Act of Parliament (the truth being that it is only by Acts of Parliament that men in large communities can be made moral, even when they want to)."

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