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Dramatist George Bernard Shaw was born on 26th July 1856 AD. An Irish citizen, George Bernard Shaw was born in Ireland. George Bernard Shaw was 94 years old when he died on 2nd November 1950 AD. In his life George Bernard Shaw was famous not only for his work but also for quotations and sayings, some of which are quite popular and listed here.

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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 and the beginning of peace.	Tweet
A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.	Tweet
Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred.	Tweet
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.	Tweet
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.	Tweet
Love is the gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everyone else.	Tweet
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.	Tweet
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.	Tweet
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.	Tweet
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.	Tweet
Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations.	Tweet
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.	Tweet
A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.	Tweet
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.	Tweet
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.	Tweet
A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.	Tweet
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.	Tweet
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.	Tweet
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.	Tweet
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.	Tweet
A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.	Tweet
A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.	Tweet
A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.	Tweet
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.	Tweet
All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.	Tweet
Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.	Tweet
An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.	Tweet

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