She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech.
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George Bernard Shaw
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About George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1913) and Saint Joan (1923). With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literat…
Read on Wikipedia → Find books by George Bernard ShawThe trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
Power does not corrupt men fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness a…
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
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You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
Hell is full of musical amateurs.
We are the only real aristocracy in the world: the aristocracy of money.
When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.
Lack of money is the root of all evil.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
Until the men of action clear out the talkers we who have social consciences are at the mercy of those who have none.
Power does not corrupt men fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.