Irish - Dramatist | July 26, 1856 - November 2, 1950
The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
George Bernard Shaw
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My reputation grows with every failure.
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Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.
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My method of getting a play across the footlights is like a revolver shooting: every line has a bullet in it and comes with an explosion.
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Creation is a miracle of daily recurrence. 'A miracle a minute' would not be a bad slogan for God.
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Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
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When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.
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The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.
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Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.
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Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
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Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
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The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.
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