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
I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.

R
He who has never hoped can never despair.
A
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
N
In Ireland they try to make a cat cleanly by rubbing its nose in its own filth. Mr. Joyce has tried the same treatment on the human subject. I hope it may prove successful.
K
Even the fact that doctors themselves die of the very diseases they profess to cure passes unnoticed. We do not shoot out our lips and shake our heads, saying, 'They save others: themselves they cannot save':
 


Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: Liza Doolittle, in Pygmalion, act 2.
R: In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994.
A: Ellie, in Heartbreak House, act 2.
N: Letter, 10 Oct. 1921, to Joyce's publisher (published in Letters of James Joyce, vol. 3, 1966). Shaw, commenting on Ulysses, called it a "revolting record of a disgusting phase of civilisation; but it
K: The Doctor's Dilemma," 'Preface on Doctors'
 

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