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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, 6 Tage oder 61.276 Tage alt.

Geboren am 26.07.1856 in Dublin
Gestorben am 02.11.1950 in Ayot St. Lawrence
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• I never resist temptation, because I have found that the things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

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• I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.

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• I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.

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• I'm one of the undeserving poor . . . up agen middle-class morality all the time . . . What is middle-class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything.

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• I'monly a beer teetotaller, not a champagne teetotaller.

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• If ever I utter an oath again may my soul be blasted to eternal damnation!

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• If parents would only realize how they bore their own children!

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• If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.

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• If you injure your neighbor, better not do it by halves.

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• If you strike a child take care that you strike it in anger, even at the risk of maiming it for life. A blow in cold blood neither can nor should be forgiven.

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• If you want to bore an Irishman, play him an Irish melody, or introduce him to another Irishman.

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• In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine.

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• In the arts of peace Man is a bungler.

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• It is a dangerous mistake to believe that we can't do too much good.

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• It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.

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• It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.

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• It is easy-terribly easy- to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to break a man's spirit is devil's work.

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• It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

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• It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.

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• Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.

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