People/George Bernard Shaw/Quote
A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.
Man and Superman (1903), Act I, p. 22; Tanner
Some men see things as they are and say why—I dream things that never were and say why not.
Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn’t!
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it.
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If music be the food of love, play on.
Poetry is what gets lost in translation.
Music makes one feel so romantic—at least it always gets on one’s nerves—which is the same thing nowadays.
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