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The quotations of

George Bernard Shaw

Irish playwright, critic, and polemicist

1856–1950

99 quotes, most often on Love, Morality and Clever Jabs.

Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it onto future generations.
- Life & Death
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
The Doctor’s Dilemma (1911), Act V
- Humor
- Life & Death
In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine.
Man and Superman (1903), The Devil
- Life & Death
- Technology
What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.
Pygmalion (1912), Act II, spoken by HigginsIn context
- Life & Death
- Risk

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