Creative Quotations from . . .
George Bernard Shaw
(1856-1950) born on Jul 26
Irish "dramatist, critic". "He is generally recognized as the best dramatist since Shakespeare; promoted social reform with "drama of ideas.""
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F
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.

R
"He didn't dare to, because his father had a weak heart and habitually threatened to drop dead if anybody hurt his feelings. You may have noticed that people with weak hearts are the tyrants of English married life."
A
"If you can say a thing with one stroke, unanswerably you have style; if not, you are at best a "marchande de plaisir," a decorative littérateur, or a musical confectioner, or a painter of fans with cupids and cocottes. Handel had power."
N
"If you can't get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance."
K
"Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing --a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces."
 
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Published Sources for the above Quotations:
F: "Broadcast, 11 July 1932"
R: "In <a href="http://www.cyber-nation.com/cgi-bin/victory/quotations/qlreferral/quotelib.pl?id=10115">The Ultimate Success Quotations Library</a>, 1997."
A: "Quoted in "International Herald Tribune," 5 Dec 81"
N: "In "Webster's Electronic Quotebase," ed. Keith Mohler, 1994."
K: "Letter of condolence, 5 July 1913 (published in Bernard Shaw: Collected Letters, vol. 3, 1965). Shaw added: "And come and close my eyes too, when I die; and see me with my mask off as I really was.""
   



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