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«An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only comfortable»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Morality
| Keywords:
comfortable, Englishman
«When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it's called ferocity.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Sports
| Keywords:
ferocity, The Tiger, tiger
«I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Conversation
| Keywords:
adds, quote, quotes, quoting, spice, spiced
«It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Relationships
| Keywords:
date, shock, to date, up-to-date
«Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
commonest, courageous, disobedience, distinguished, lazier, laziest, neglect, neglecting, neglects, rarest, seldom, Too lazy, vices, virtues
«If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding out that he hates you like poison, you would soon have your eyes opened. There we do unkind things in a kind way: we say bitter things in a sweet voice: we always give our friends chloroform when we tear them to pieces.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
chloroform, False friend, False friends, fellowship
«Golf is typical capitalist lunacy.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Golf
| Keywords:
capitalist, lunacies, lunacy, typical
«A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
address, addresses, libertine, Libertines, vagabond, vagabonds
«No king on earth is as safe in his job as a Trade Union official. There is only one thing that can get him sacked; and that is drink. Not even that, as long as he doesn't actually fall down.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
Down to Earth, fall down, official, sacked, trade, trade union, Trade unions, union
«The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
blood, bowing, bows, bow out, civilize, civilized, civilizes, civilizing, flesh, fleshed, Flesh and Blood, idols, savage, savaged, stone, take a bow, wood
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