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«Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.»
«The lack of money is the root of all evil.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Evil,
Money
| Keywords:
lack, root
«No American newspaper will print anything contrary to its own interests»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
All American, American, Contraries, contrary, interests, newspaper, out of print, print, prints
«A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most. On Other Peoples Expectations: The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
American elder, anew, behaved, described, elder, expectations, expected, feed, fights, measurement, measurements, native, Native American, peoples, reflected, replied, sensibly, struggles, tailor, tailored, tailoring, The Tailor, wins
«The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
accurate, called, commonly, commonly called, cynicism, have-not, observation, The Power
«The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Arguments,
Belief
| Keywords:
arguments, suddenly
«If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Children,
Example
| Keywords:
object lesson
«An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
America and Americans
| Keywords:
asylum, asylums, In America, sane
«Beauty is all very well at first sight; but whoever looks at it when it has been in the house three days ?»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Beauty
| Keywords:
at first, at first sight, house, In the House, sight, very well
«It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as possible»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Men and Women
| Keywords:
business, get married, kept woman, married, married man, married woman, soon, unmarried, unmarried man, unmarried woman
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