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«Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Marriage
| Keywords:
combines, maximum, More popular than, popular, popular with, temptation
«Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
consists, legally, married, moralities, morality, Other People, People of, suspecting
«The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
ages, all ages, conversion, conversions, Conversion of, danger, degrading, drags, fascination, fascinations, high-minded, high and low, high level, incapable, level, lower, lowering, lowers, offered, rising
«Hell is full of musical amateurs.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Hell,
Religion
| Keywords:
amateurs, like an amateur, musical, musicals
«All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
conquers, moralities, morality, perish, perishing, religions, revolt, revolted, revolts
«A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Art,
Education
| Keywords:
digesting, digests, folly, hence, pedantry, philosophy, science, superstition, university
«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.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Life,
Work
| Keywords:
die hard, harder, rejoice, sake, thoroughly, used, used up
«An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
bad blood, bath, election, horror, mud, mud bath
«A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
entertain, lectures, nap, napping, Naps, overtakes, superannuated, The Visitors, unwelcome, visitors
«In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
acquire, adept, ambition, get rid of, literary, literature, novice, novices, rid, rid of, struggle, The Novice
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