George Bernard Shaw Quotes, Italian Quotes, Play Quotes

Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the style of Italian opera.

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What a heartbreaking job it is trying to combine authors for their own protection... the first lesson I learned was that when you take the field for the authors you will be safer without a breastplate than without a backplate.

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My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen.

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Nationalism must now be added to the refuse pile of superstitions. We are now citizens of the world, and the man who divides the race into elect Irishmen and reprobate foreign devils (especially Englishmen) had better live on the Blaskets where he can admire himself without disturbance.

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We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!

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The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.

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In truth , mankind cannot be saved from without, by schoolmasters or any other sort of masters: it can only be lamed and enslaved by them. It is said that if you wash a cat it will never again wash itself. This may or may not be true : what is certain is that if you teach a man anything he will never learn it; and if you cure him of a disease he will be unable to cure himself the next time it attacks him.

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The great dramatist has something better to do than to amuse either himself or his audience. He has to interpret life.

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Never believe anything a writer tells you about himself. A man comes to believe in the end the lies he tells himself about himself.

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It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.

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Start with the belief that your life can indeed be changed, and that you have the power to change it.

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A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.

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Whenever an obviously well founded statement is made in England by a person specially well acquainted with the facts, that unlucky person is instantly and frantically contradicted by all the people who obviously know nothing about it.

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The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!

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Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.

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I aint such a mug as to put up my children to all I know myself.

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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.

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It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.

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A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.

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I do not know what I think until I write it.

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