George Bernard Shaw Quotes

When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.

George Bernard Shaw

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: dramatist
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: July 26, 1856 - November 2, 1950

Topics

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I don't want to go around like some kind of bleeding giant or whatever, or thinking I'm a big deal, because it doesn't help you do your work. I think people like Hemingway got into an awful lot of trouble that way.

Jim Harrison

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Sex is full of lies. The body tries to tell the truth. But, it's usually too battered with rules to be heard, and bound with pretenses so it can hardly move. We cripple ourselves with lies.

Jim Morrison

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They'd rather see Scooby Doo or Spongebob than Daddy talking about the latest Wall Street Journal editorial. You do what you have to do to get your kids ready for school.

Joe Scarborough

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My very first role was when I was 2 1/2 years old; I was one of Nora's children in 'A Doll's House,' with my father playing Torvald.

John Lithgow

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I've been blessed by doing classic plays on Broadway, which was one of my great dreams forever.

Michael Emerson

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Written by Pulitzer Prize-winning playwright Donald Margulies and directed by Sundance nominee James Ponsoldt, 'The End of the Tour' is a terrific film, among the year's best with its two-man tarantella of wall-to-wall talk - and I watched it through my fingers as though it were Mad Max.

Steve Erickson

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I've always loved slightly ugly shoes. Or even very ugly shoes.

Suki Waterhouse

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Any play that's making a point is less interesting than something that stays with you and suggests something further.

Simon McBurney

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Algebra looked like Chinese characters to me, and I could never get into reading Shakespeare. I just did not get it.

Tommy Hilfiger

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A simple scoop-neck leotard highlights a ballerina's swanlike neck and elegant posture, both rooted in a powerful core.

Mary Helen Bowers

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What people respond to in my room makeovers is the daring design - fearless colors, bold fabrics and occasionally outlandish decor.

Douglas Wilson

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I did not want to make the widow record. I still haven't made the widow record.

Courtney Love

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