George Bernand Shaw (1856 – 1950) was an Irish playwright who wrote more than 60 plays and also became an accomplished public speaker working to reduce the exploitation of the working class.
He is the only person EVER to have been awarded both a Nobel Prize (1925) and an Oscar (1938), for his contributions to literature and for his work on the film Pygmalion.
Here are a collection of some of his greatest quotes:
"A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable, but more useful, than a life spent doing nothing"
"Democracy is a device that ensures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."
"Lack of money is the root of all evil"
"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all other countries because you were born in it"
"We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it, than to consume wealth without producing it"
"He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career."
And what I think might be the greatest quote of all time...
"We learn from history that man can never learn anything from history"
All the quotes were fabulous.
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George Bernard Shaw won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1925, and an Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay (Pygmalion) in 1938.
Contrary to popular belief, Nobel Prize winner Al Gore did not win an Oscar. He did go on stage when An Inconvenient Truth won the Oscar for Best Documentary. But the prize goes to the director of the movie. Gore was not the director of