George Bernard Shaw

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"Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him."	Family
"Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him."	Success, Life
"The true joy of life [is] being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one … being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap heap … being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances."	Philosophy
"The true joy of life [is] being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one … being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap heap … being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances."	Wisdom
"A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic."	Art
"Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine and at last you create what you will."	Art
"It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion."	Art
"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 littérateur, or a musical confectioner, or a painter of fans with cupids and cocottes. Handel had power."	Art
"Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols or bombs without incurring any penalties."	Music
"Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols or bombs without incurring any penalties."	Art
"The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary…. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise."	Music
"The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary…. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise."	Art
"I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation."	Music
"I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation."	Art
"Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition."	Music
"Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition."	Art
"Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me."	Art
"General consultant to mankind."	Art
"The utmost I can bear for myself in my best days is that I was one of the hundred best playwrights in the world, which is hardly a supreme distinction."	Art
"A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned."	Art
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