George Bernard Shaw
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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
— Candida, Act I (1898)
George Bernard Shaw, meist auf eigenen Wunsch nur Bernard Shaw genannt (* 26. Juli 1856 in Dublin, Irland; † 2. November 1950 in Ayot Saint Lawrence, England), war ein irischer Dramatiker, Politiker, Satiriker, Musikkritiker und Pazifist, der 1925 den Nobelpreis für Literatur und 1939 den Oscar für das beste adaptierte Drehbuch erhielt (Pygmalion).
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We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.
I had not achieved a success; but I provoked an uproar; and the sensation was so agreeable that I resolved to try again.
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
Die Walküre is endured by the average man because it contains four scenes for which he would sit out a Scotch sermon, or even a House of Commons debate.
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