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George Bernard Shaw Quotes
«It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made»
«I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work, the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake. Life is no ?brief candle? to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Ambition,
Death,
Effort,
Satisfaction,
Work
«Common people do not pray, my lord: they only beg»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Prayer
| Keywords:
beg, common people
«When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
apparent, contract, credulous, mission, proved, skeptical
«We throw the whole drudgery of creation one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
delicacies, delicacy, imply, initiate, initiated, initiating
«Democracy means the organization of society for the benefit and at the expense of everybody indiscriminately and not for the benefit of a privileged class.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Democracy
| Keywords:
indiscriminately, The Organization
«Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
pretense, pretenses, reluctance, whitewashed, whitewashing
«We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
transfer, transferred, transferring