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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, 10 Monate, 3 Tage oder 61.303 Tage alt.

Geboren am 26.07.1856 in Dublin
Gestorben am 02.11.1950 in Ayot St. Lawrence
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• Dancing is a perpendicular expression of a horizontal desire.

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• Dear Sir, Your profession has, as usual, destroyed your brain.

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• Decency is Indecency's conspiracy of silence.

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• Democracy is a procedure that guarantees that we aren't better governed than we deserve.

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• Democracy substitutes election by the incompetent manyfor appointment by the corrupt few.

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• Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.

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• Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.

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• Economy is the art of making the most of life. The love of economy is the root of all virtue.

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• England and America are two countries divided by a common language.

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• Englishmen never will be slaves: they are free to do whatever the Government and public opinion allow them to do.

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• Englismen will never be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them to do.

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• Every man over forty is a scoundrel.

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• Fashions are nothing else but imported epidemics.
  • Paul Catty spricht . . .

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• Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.

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• Financiers live in a world of illusion. They count on something which they call the capital of the country, which has no existence.

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• Gin was mother's milk to her.

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• Go anywhere in England where there are natural, wholesome, contented, and really nice English people; and what do you always find? That the stables are the real centre of the household.

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• Hate is the coward's revenge for being humiliated.

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• Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.

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• He [the Briton] is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.

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