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Author: George Bernard Shaw Page 2
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
George Bernard Shaw
(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist
Dance
Family
Past
Relationships
Situations
Things
Time
Skeleton
Virtue is insufficient temptation.
George Bernard Shaw
(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist
Characteristics
Temptation
Virtue
Patriotism is the conviction that your country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
George Bernard Shaw
(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist
Beliefs
Government
Patriotism
Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire?… the one nearest the door of course.
George Bernard Shaw
(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist
Art
Entertainment
Situations
Fire
I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.
George Bernard Shaw
(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist
Death
Epitaphs
Suggested epitaph
The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
George Bernard Shaw
(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist
Characteristics
People
Respect
Shame
He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything; that points clearly to a political career.
George Bernard Shaw
(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist
Insults
Politics
Newspapers are unable, seemingly, to discriminate between a bicycle accident and the collapse of civilization.
George Bernard Shaw
(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist
Communication
Newspapers
There would never be any public agreement among doctors if they did not agree to agree on the main point of the doctor being always on the right.
George Bernard Shaw
(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist
Doctors
Health
Occupations
Work
His idea of getting hold of the right end of the stick is to snatch it from the hands of somebody who is using it effectively, and to hit him over the head with it.
George Bernard Shaw
(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist
Insults
On Theodore Roosevelt
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
George Bernard Shaw
(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist
Baseball
Sports
Time
Advantage
Cricket
Nowadays a parlor maid as ignorant as Queen Victoria was when she came to the throne would be classed as mentally defective.
George Bernard Shaw
(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist
Insults
Intelligence
About Queen Victoria
The chief objection of playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.
George Bernard Shaw
(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist
Entertainment
Music
Wind instruments
Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
George Bernard Shaw
(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist
America
People
Places
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
George Bernard Shaw
(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist
Marriage
(also Ogden Nash)
Opportunity
Temptation
He who can, does; he who cannot, teaches.
George Bernard Shaw
(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist
People
Work
Doing things
Teaching
Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? … If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!
George Bernard Shaw
(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist
Beliefs
Religion
Sex
Pope
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
George Bernard Shaw
(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist
Characteristics
Intelligence
Stupidity
Danger
Sincere
Martyrdom is the only way a man can become famous without ability.
George Bernard Shaw
(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist
Death
Martyrdom
The vertical expression of a horizontal desire legalized by music.
George Bernard Shaw
(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist
Dance
Entertainment
Music
Sex
The faults of the burglar are qualities of the financier.
George Bernard Shaw
(1856 – 1950) Irish playwright & socialist
Occupations
Work
Burglar
Financier
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