Creative Quotations from . . .
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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F
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

R
What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?
A
When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.
N
When I was a young man I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure. So I did ten times more work.
K
What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.
 


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
R: Don Juan, in Man and Superman, act 3.
A: Lady Cicely, in Captain Brassbound's Conversion, act 2.
N: In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
K: In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
 

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