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«I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in less time that it takes me to buy a German Dictionary»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Language
| Keywords:
dictionary, ordinary language, Sanskrit
«The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Art
| Keywords:
drudge, drudges, his mother, seventy, starve, work at
«The early Christian rules of life were not made to last, because the early Christians did not believe that the world itself was going to last.»
«We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists.»
«Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentleman.»
«It would positively be a relief to me to dig him [Shakespeare] up and throw stones at him.»
«What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Originality
| Keywords:
tickling, unaccustomed
«The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Civilization
| Keywords:
hopeful
«I like a bit of a mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog; they're the best for every day»
«The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.»
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