Zitate von George Bernard Shaw
Ein bekanntes Zitat von George Bernard Shaw:
Das Leben hört nicht auf, lustig zu sein, wenn Menschen sterben; genauso wenig wie es aufhört, ernst zu sein, wenn Menschen lachen.
Informationen über George Bernard Shaw
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, 29 Tage oder 61.268 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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There is . . . nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.
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There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes.
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There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
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There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but youwill never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle. He fights you on patriotic principles; he robs you on business principles; he enslaves you on imperial principles; he bullies you on manly principles; he supports his king on loyal principles and cuts off his king's head on republican principles.
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
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There is the true joy of life; to be used by a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one; to be thoroughly worn out before being thrown on the scrap heap; to be a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish little clod of ailments and grievances complaining that life will not devote itself to making you happy.
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There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.
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There's no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
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Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species.
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This is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them.
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Those who talk most about the blessings of marriage and the constancy of its vows are the very people who declare that if the chain were broken and the prisoners were left free to choose, the whole social fabric would fly asunder. You can't have the argument both ways. If the prisoner is happy, why lock him in? If he is not, why pretend that he is?
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Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.
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To drift is to be in hell, to be in heaven is to steer.
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To the person with a toothache, even if the world is tottering, there is nothing more important than a visit to a dentist.
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True joy in life consists of being needed for an aim which you yourself consider to be right.
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Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; and do not outlive yourself.
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Very few people can afford to be poor.
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Vice is waste of life. Poverty, obedience, and celibacy are the canonical vices.
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Virtue is insufficient temptation.
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Vitality in a woman is a blind fury of creation.