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George Bernard Shaw
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes 1
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| A happy family is but an earlier heaven. |
novelist; as a fervent advocate of the new theatre of Ibsen (The Quintessence of Ibsenism, 1891) he decided to write plays in order to illustrate his criticism of the English stage. His earliest dramas were called appropriately Plays Pleasant and Unpleasant (1898). Among these, Widower's Houses and Mrs. Warren's Profession savagely attack social hypocrisy, while
in plays such as Arms and the Man and The Man of Destiny the criticism is less fierce. Shaw's radical rationalism, his utter disregard of conventions, his keen dialectic interest and verbal wit often turn the stage into a forum of ideas, and nowhere more openly than in the famous discourses on the Life Force, «Don Juan in Hell», the third act of the dramatization of woman's love chase of man, Man and Superman (1903).
In the plays of his later period discussion sometimes drowns the drama, in Back to Methuselah (1921), although in the same period he worked on his masterpiece Saint Joan (1923), in which he rewrites the well-known story of the French maiden and extends it from the Middle Ages to the present.
Other important plays by Shaw are Caesar and Cleopatra (1901), a historical play filled with allusions to modern times, and Androcles and the Lion (1912), in which he exercised a kind of retrospective history and from modern movements drew deductions for the Christian era. In Major Barbara (1905), one of Shaw's most successful «discussion» plays, the audience's attention is held by the power of the witty argumentation that man can achieve aesthetic salvation only through political activity, not as an individual. The Doctor's Dilemma (1906), facetiously classified as a tragedy by Shaw, is really a comedy the humour of which is directed at the medical profession. Candida (1898), with social attitudes toward sex relations as objects of his satire, and Pygmalion (1912), a witty study of phonetics as well as a clever treatment of middle-class morality and class distinction, proved some of Shaw's greatest successes on the stage. It is a combination of the dramatic, the comic, and the social corrective that gives Shaw's comedies their special flavour.
Shaw's complete works appeared in thirty-six volumes between 1930 and 1950, the year of his death.
- Life isn't about finding yourself. Life is about creating yourself.
- A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
- Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
- Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.
- The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
- You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?
- Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
- Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
- The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
- My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
- Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.
- Success does not consist in never making mistakes but in never making the same one a second time.
- War does not decide who is right but who is left.
- When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
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