George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Fun Quotes, Drama Quotes

A third variety of drama ... begins as tragedy with scraps of fun in it ... and ends in comedy without mirth in it, the place of mirth being taken by a more or less bitter and critical irony.

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Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.

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The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

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Liberty is the breath of life to nations.

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The wheels are turning, but the hamsters are all dead. Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot. I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it.

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While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: "To ----, with esteem, George Bernard Shaw." He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: "With renewed esteem, George Bernard Shaw.

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He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him

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I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

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Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.

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Virtue is insufficient temptation.

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Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.

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Social questions are too sectional, too topical, too temporal to move a man to the mighty effort which is needed to produce greatpoetry. Prison reform may nerve Charles Reade to produce an effective and businesslike prose melodrama; but it could never produce Hamlet, Faust, or Peer Gynt.

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The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.

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If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

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While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?

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To be a champion you must live like one.

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You will think less of the art, when you know the artist

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I aint such a mug as to put up my children to all I know myself.

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The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.

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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.

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