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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, 9 Monate, 6 Tage oder 61.276 Tage alt.

Geboren am 26.07.1856 in Dublin
Gestorben am 02.11.1950 in Ayot St. Lawrence
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• Walk! Not bloody likely. I am going in a taxi.

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• We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.

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• What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.

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• What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

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• What God hath joined together no man ever shall put asunder: God will take care of that.

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• What is life, but a series of inspired follies?

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• What is the use of money if you have to work for it?

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• What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?

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• What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.

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• When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity.

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• When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

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• When domestic servants are treated as human beings it is not worthwhile to keep them.

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• When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.

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• When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, more delusive and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.

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• Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist.

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• While we have prisons, it matters little which of us occupy the cells.

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• Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.

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• Wot prawce Selvytion nah?

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• You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.

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• You see things and say, "Why?", but I dream things and say, "Why not?".

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