Zitate von George Bernard Shaw
Ein bekanntes Zitat von George Bernard Shaw:
Das einzige Talent des Mannes besteht darin, daß er unter günstigsten Umständen wirklich lieben kann - nicht beständig, nicht treu, nicht oft, nicht lange, aber einen Augenblick.
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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, 8 Monate, 30 Tage oder 61.269 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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Swindon: What will history say? Burgoyne: History, sir, will tell lies as usual.
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Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
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The art of government is the organization of idolatry.
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The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.
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The captain is in his bunk, drinking bottled ditch-water; and the crew is gambling in the forecastle. She will strike and sink and split. Do you think the laws of God will be suspended in favour of England because you were born in it?
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The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it. They spell it so abominably that no man can teach himself what it sounds like. It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
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The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
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The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
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The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a refuge from home life.
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The great secret is not having bad manners or good manners or any other particular sort of manners, but having the same manner for all human souls; in short, behaving as if your were in heaven, where there are no third-class carriages, and one soul is as good as another.
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The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty . . . our first duty-a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed - is not to be poor.
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The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
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The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
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The man who listens to Reason is lost: Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to masterher.
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The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
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The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too humble for the world to discover it.
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The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.
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The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
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The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is forher to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.
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The open mind never acts - when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still, when we can reason and investigate no more, must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our own conclusion. The man who wants to make an entirely reasonable will dies intestate.