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Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist

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A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of Hell.
– George Bernard Shaw

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Who is this Baby Ruth? And what does she do?
– George Bernard Shaw

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A fool’s brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
– George Bernard Shaw

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A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always rely on the support of Paul.
– George Bernard Shaw

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Martyrdom… is the only way in which a man can become famous without ability.
– George Bernard Shaw

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Cricket is a game played by 11 fools and watched by 11,000 fools
– George Bernard Shaw

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Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever when they are only wasting their time.
– George Bernard Shaw

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Consistency is the enemy of enterprise, just as symmetry is the enemy of art.
– George Bernard Shaw

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Heartbreak is life educating us.
– George Bernard Shaw

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Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
– George Bernard Shaw

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Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve.
– George Bernard Shaw

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Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.

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The single biggest problem in communication is the illusion that it has taken place.
– George Bernard Shaw

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It is all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
– George Bernard Shaw

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Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
– George Bernard Shaw

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Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
– George Bernard Shaw

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The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.
– George Bernard Shaw

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What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
– George Bernard Shaw

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When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
– George Bernard Shaw

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Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
– George Bernard Shaw

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Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.
– George Bernard Shaw

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People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
– George Bernard Shaw

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To be in Hell is to drift: to be in Heaven is to steer.
– George Bernard Shaw

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Tis not enough to help the feeble up but to support him after.
– George Bernard Shaw

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People become attached to their burdens sometimes more than the burdens are attached to them.
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