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“It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.”

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George Bernard Shaw (July 26, 1856 - November 2, 1950) was an Irish-British playwright, critic, and socialist. He is renowned for his satirical and witty dramatic works. more

“Just as the historian can teach no real history until he has cured his readers of the romantic delusion that the greatness of a queen consists in her being a pretty woman and having her head cut off, so the playwright of the first order can do nothing with his audience until he has cured them of looking at the stage through the keyhole, and sniffing round the theatre as prurient people sniff round the divorce court.”

Source: George Bernard Shaw: Collected Articles, Lectures, Essays and Letters: Thoughts and Studies from the Renowned Dramaturge and Author of Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Pygmalion, Arms and The Man, Saint Joan, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion

“Life is a constant becoming: all stages lead to the beginning of others.”

Life Is Stage Becoming Constant

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective.”

Would Be Ignorant Queens Thrones Maids Victoria Defective Parlor

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“Rebecca [West] can handle a pen as brilliantly as ever I could and much more savagely.”

West Handle Pens Rebecca

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.”

Thinking Home British Harm Neighbor Preacher Severe

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“The public want actresses, because they think all actresses bad. They don't want music or poetry because they know that both are good. So actors and actresses thrive and poets and composers starve.”

Thinking Knows Want Actors Poet Actresses Thrive Poetry Is Composer Actors And Actresses

Author:George Bernard Shaw

“The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.”

People Way Deals Worldly Whispering Scandalous

Book:Love Among The Artists (Autobiographical Novel): A Story With a Purpose

Source: Love Among The Artists (Autobiographical Novel): A Story With a Purpose

“I think at the heart of the pro-life movement is the idea that all people are created equal, endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights starting with life.”

People Thinking Heart Ideas Certain Rights Movement Equal Starting Creator Pro Life Unalienable Rights

Author:Mike Huckabee

“To a professional critic (I have been one myself) theatre-going is the curse of Adam. The play is the evil he is paid to endure in the sweat of his brow; and the sooner it is over, the better.”

Has Beens Play Evil Paid Critics Endure Theatre Curse Sweat Adam Brows

Book:George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit

Source: George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit

“To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.”

Pain Romance Political Literature Imagination Moral Drug Universal Endure Preparation Superstitions Idealism Sentimental Gin Hashish

Author:George Bernard Shaw

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