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"People always ask me, 'Were you funny as a child?' Well, no, I was an accountant."

"If I'm in something funny, I like to try and find some kind of serious line in it that people can relate to."

"Hurried and worried until we're buried, and there's no curtain call, Lifes a very funny proposition after all."
Explore more quotes by George Bernard Shaw

"People see a Macbeth film. They imagine they have seen Macbeth, and don't want to see it again; so when your Mr. Hackett or somebody comes round to act the play, he finds the house empty. That is what has happened to dozens of good plays whose authors have allowed them to be filmed. It shall not happen to mine if I can help it."

"My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity."

"The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech."

"Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds, cannot change anything."

"HOSTESS. Oh, nonsense! She speaks English perfectly.NEPOMMUCK. Too perfectly. Can you shew me any English woman who speaks English as it should be spoken? Only foreigners who have been taught to speak it speak it well."

"You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub."

"Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does."
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