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George Bernard Shaw Quotes
«A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Fashion
| Keywords:
epidemic, epidemics, induced
«Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Chess
| Keywords:
chess, expedient, wasting
«The road to ignorance is paved with good editions»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Ignorance
| Keywords:
edition, editions, paved
«As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
admission, admissions, drama, dramas, languish, languished, languishes, languishing, naked, theater
«Capitalism justified itself and was adopted as an economic principle on the express ground that it provides selfish motives for doing good, and that human beings will do nothing except for selfish motives»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Capitalism
| Keywords:
adopted, capitalism, do-nothing, economic, justified, motives, provides, selfish, The Express
«It is a noteworthy fact that kicking and beating have played so considerable a part in the habits which necessity has imposed on mankind in past ages that the only way of preventing civilized men from beating and kicking their wives is to organize games in which they can kick and beat balls.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
ages, balls, ball game, Ball games, beat, beating, civilized, considerable, games, imposed, kick, kicking, noteworthy, organize, played, preventing, wives
«It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
fashion, if not, of their own, period
«Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Independence
| Keywords:
blasphemy, dependent, dependent on, middle class
«In a hospital they throw you out into the street before you are half cured, but in a nursing home they don't let you out till you are dead.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Hospitals
| Keywords:
cured, hospital, nursing, nursing home