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George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic and polemicist whose 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 (1912) 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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“Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.”

“A learned man is an idler who kills time by study.”

“The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew every time he sees ...

“People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances ...

“Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that i ...

“One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't”

“Life is no `brief candle' to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I've got to hold up for the ...

“Better never than late.”

“The true joy of life [is] being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one ... bei ...

“No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his se ...

“A happy family is but an earlier heaven.”

“Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind ...

“If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.”

“Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity ...

“As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.”