Thread by @BettinaSRoss1

#OTD in 1950, the world lost the wonderful George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright & 1925 recipient of the Nobel Prize for #Literature

(Apart) from his work, there's a treasure trove of wonderful quotes, so I thought I'd do an all-day thread, adding them one by one as we go...

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"He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career."

- George Bernard Shaw, Major Barbara

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"If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple.

But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas."

- George Bernard Shaw

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"The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure."

- George Bernard Shaw

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"If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance."

- George Bernard Shaw, Immaturity

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"There is no love sincerer than the love of food."

- George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman

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"Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it..."

- George Bernard Shaw

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"Never wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it."

- George Bernard Shaw

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"Youth is wasted on the young."

- George Bernard Shaw

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"What you are to do without me I cannot imagine."

- George Bernard Shaw, Pygmalion

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