George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw, known at his insistence as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1913) and Saint Joan (1923). With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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A man ought to be able to be fond of his wife without making a fool of himself about her.
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Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
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A pessimist thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
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A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
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To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
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Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
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If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad.
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