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A revolutionist is one who de...

A revolutionist is one who desires to discard the existing social order and try another.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Nowadays a parlor maid as ign...

Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Remember always that the leas...

Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Civilized society is one huge...

Civilized society is one huge bourgeoisie: no nobleman dares now shock his greengrocer.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

I have defined the hundred pe...

I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Though justice be Thy plea, c...

Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

My heart, my heart, be whole ...

My heart, my heart, be whole and free: Love is thine only enemy.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Let no one suppose that the w...

Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Man is the only animals of wh...

Man is the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Absolute honesty is as absurd...

Absolute honesty is as absurd an abstraction as an absolute temperature or an absolute value.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

If you demand my authorities ...

If you demand my authorities for this and that, I must reply that only those who have never hunted up the authorities as I have believe that there is any authority who is not contradicted flatly by some other authority.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Stop being Jews and start bei...

Stop being Jews and start being human beings.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

You may well ask me why...I t...

You may well ask me why...I took the time to write [books]. I can only reply that I do not know. There was no why about it. I had to: that was all.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

The writer who aims at produc...

The writer who aims at producing the platitudes which are "not for an age, but for all time" has his reward in being unreadable inall ages.... The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only sort of man who writes about all people and about all time.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Obedience simulates subordina...

Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Our political experiment of d...

Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

There is a terrible truthfuln...

There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

A vegetarian is not a person ...

A vegetarian is not a person who lives on vegetables, any more than a Catholic is a person who lives on cats.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

It is not true that men can b...

It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

I appeal to the chemists to d...

I appeal to the chemists to discover a humane gas that will kill instantly and painlessly. In short- a gentlemanly gas deadly by all means, but humane, not cruel.

George Bernard Shaw 1763 quotes

Добрые, щедрые, великодушные: 6 советских актеров, которые были всеобщими любимчиками

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Советских актёров часто ставят в пример как образец духовной силы, национальной гордости и внутренней красоты. Они стали символами эпохи, носителями культуры и нравственности. Но, как известно, за кул...

Десять кинозвезд, которые отлично поют

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Актеры — люди творческие, но кто бы мог подумать, что некоторые из них скрывают прекрасный голос. В эпоху раннего Голливуда актеров с музыкальными способностями было немало — это считалось скорее норм...

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Расскажем, как сложилась судьба актеров, которые начинали сниматься еще в детстве.
Остаться на вершине в Голливуде удаётся не каждому, особенно если путь начался в детстве. Одни актёры теряются из-за...

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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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Кира Найтли на страницах журнала к выходу фильма «Пиджак», 2005. Следы динозавра, раскопанные в русле реки Палакси. Техас. США. 1952г. Самая большая женщина рядом с самым маленьким мужчиной, 1922 год....