Creative Quotations from George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950)

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George Bernard Shaw
(1856-1950) born on Jul 26

Irish dramatist, critic. He is generally recognized as the best dramatist since Shakespeare; promoted social reform with "drama of ideas."

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Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned.

Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.

I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power and the glory. I say to them "You are supreme: exercise your power." They say, "That's right: tell us what to do;" and I tell them.

If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.

Critics, like other people, see what they look for, not what is actually before them.

Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F:	Don Juan, in Man and Superman, act 3.
R:	Man and Superman, "The Revolutionist's Handbook," sct. 10 (1903).
A:	Boanerges, in The Apple Cart, act 1.
N:	Attributed.
K:	In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.