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«When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty»
«No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect»
«We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
bother, dress, England, manners
«Self denial is not a virtue: it is only the effect of prudence on rascality»
«I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.»
«I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power and the glory. I say to them ''You are supreme: exercise your power'.' They say, ''That's right: tell us what to do';' and I tell them. I say ''Exercise our vote intelligently by voting for me'.' And they do. That's democracy; and a splendid thing it is too for putting the right men in the right place.»
«Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
Englishman, Englishmen, pedigree, pedigrees
«Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.»
«What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
Englishman, motor, motoring, motors, motor car
«If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a marchande de plaisir; a decorative litt?rateur, or a musical confectioner, or a painter of fans with cupids and cocottes. Handel had power.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
at best, Best A, confectioner, confectioners, Cupids, decorative, Handel, musical style, stroke
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