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«Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Hypocrisy
| Keywords:
Good taste
«I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
Alfred, Alfred Nobel, dynamite, Nobel, Nobel prize
«Life on board a pleasure steamer violates every moral and physical condition of healthy life except fresh air... It is a guzzling, lounging, gambling, dog's life. The only alternative to excitement is irritability.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Life
| Keywords:
Air conditioning, alternative, board, excitement, Fresh Air, gambling, guzzle, guzzling, irritability, lounge, lounging, steamer, Steamers, violates
«Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being ended sooner.»
«When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Military
| Keywords:
approaches, locks, military man, spoons, The Military, womankind
«I learned to speak as people learn to skate or cycle, by doggedly making a fool of myself until I got used to it»
«When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.»
«Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols or bombs without incurring any penalties.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
Act of Parliament, assail, assailed, assailing, assails, bombs, incurred, incurring, incurs, knives, musicians, parliament, parliaments, penalties, pistols, placing, sticks
«The scavenger of misery is pity.»
«Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Orchestras
| Keywords:
Beyond the Limits, consequently, German, Orchestras, perdition, profanity, sworn
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