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Dramatiker, Satiriker, "Der Liebhaber", erhielt 1925 den Nobelpreis für Literatur, OSCAR im Jahre 1939 für das beste Drehbuch/Verfilmung von "Pygmalion", einziger Nobelpreisträger, der auch einen OSCAR erhielt (Irland, 1856 - 1950).
George Bernard Shaw · Geburtsdatum · Sterbedatum
George Bernard Shaw wäre heute 167 Jahre, 9 Monate, 16 Tage oder 61.286 Tage alt.
Geboren am 26.07.1856 in Dublin
Gestorben am 02.11.1950 in Ayot St. Lawrence
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Weitere 729 Zitate von George Bernard Shaw
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The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.
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The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
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The roulette table pays nobody except him that keeps it. Nevertheless, a passion for gambling is common, though a passion for keeping roulette tables is unknown.
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The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation.
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The sound body is the product of the sound mind.
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The test of a man's or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
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The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
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The trouble, Mr Goldwyn, is that you are only interested in art and I am only interested in money.
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The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.
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The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization.
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The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.
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The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.
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The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
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The younger generation is knocking at the door, and as I open it there steps spritely in the incomparable Max.
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There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.
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There are only two qualities in the world: efficiency and inefficiency, and only two sorts of people: the efficient and the inefficient.
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There are scores of thousands of sects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the will of God on every possible subject.
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There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms requiem.
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There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.