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I have not wasted my life tri...

I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

If you strike a child, take c...

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.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

People must not be forced to ...

People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

The English have no respect f...

The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Idiots are always in favour o...

Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

When God created man and woma...

When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

The worst cliques are those w...

The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

I am very sorry, but I cannot...

I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in less time that it takes me to buy a German Dictionary

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

I am justified. For I chose w...

I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil ; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

I'm only a beer teetotaler, n...

I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler; I don't like beer.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

When you read a biography rem...

When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Liquor is the chloroform whic...

Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

I can forgive Alfred Nobel fo...

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

God has given us a world that...

God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Martyrdom is the only path to...

Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Any man who is not a communis...

Any man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still a communist at the age of thirty is an even bigger fool.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

For nearly twenty years I hav...

For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

I have my own soul. My own sp...

I have my own soul. My own spark of divine fire.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

All industries are brought un...

All industries are brought under the control of such people [film producers] by Capitalism. If the capitalists let themselves be seduced from their pursuit of profits to the enchantments of art, they would be bankrupt before they knew where they were. You cannot combine the pursuit of money with the pursuit of art.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

German and Spanish are access...

German and Spanish are accessible to foreigners: English is not accessible even to Englishmen.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
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Два года назад отечественное телевидение столкнулось с беспрецедентной кадровой тектоникой — целая группа ярких и узнаваемых ведущих стремительно исчезла с экранов федеральных каналов. Эти лица долгие...

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