Author: George Bernard Shaw
Cited by
- Darren Groth (1)
- IN: Are You Seeing Me? (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
FROM: Pygmalion, (1941), Play, Ireland
- Theo Lawrence (1)
- IN: Toxic Heart (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Ireland
- Anna Shinoda (2)
- IN: Learning not to drown. (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
FROM: Immaturity, (1879), Novel, Ireland
- IN: Learning not to Drown (2014) Fiction, Young Adult Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
FROM: Immaturity, (1930), Novel, Ireland
- Matthew Fitzsimmons (1)
- IN: The Short Drop (2015) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Ireland
- John Lescroart (1)
- IN: The 13th Juror (1994) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
FROM: The Philanderer, (1898), Play, Ireland
- Koren Zailckas (1)
- IN: Mother, Mother (2013) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: A family is a tyranny ruled over by its weakest member.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Ireland
- Thrity Umrigar (1)
- IN: The World We Found (2012) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Ireland
- Dan Rhodes (1)
- IN: Marry Me (2013) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: Marriage is the only legal contract which abrogates as between the parties all the laws that safeguard the particular relation to which it refers.
FROM: Maxims for Revolutionists, (1903), [NA], Ireland
- Madhav Mathur (1)
- IN: The Diary of an Unreasonable Man (2009) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: 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.
FROM: Man and Superman, (1903), Play, Ireland
- Brad Listi (1)
- IN: Attention Deficit Disorder (2006) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
FROM: A Treatise on Parents and Children, (1910), Book, Ireland
- Hazel Gaynor (1)
- IN: A Memory of Violets (2015) Fiction, Irish
EPIGRAPH: The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she bahves, but how she's treated.
FROM: Pygmalion, (1912), Play, Ireland
- James Hall (1)
- IN: The Big Finish (2014) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Never wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
FROM: NULL, (None), NULL, Ireland
- Albert Espinoza (1)
- IN: The Five Acts of Diego León (2013) Fiction, NULL
EPIGRAPH: Every man is a revolutionist concerning the thing he understands.
FROM: The Revolutionist's Handbook and Pocket Companion, (1903), Book, Ireland
- Stef Penney (1)
- IN: Under a Pole Star (2016) Fiction, British
EPIGRAPH: You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I saw "Why not?"
FROM: Back to Methuselah, (1922), Play, Ireland
- Michelle Moran (1)
- IN: Rebel Queen (2015) Fiction, American
EPIGRAPH: Every Englishman is born with a certain miraculous power that makes him master of the world. When he wants a thing, he never tells himself that he wants it. He waits patiently until there comes into his mind, no one knows how, a burning conviction that it is his moral and religious duty to conquer those who have got the thing he wants.
FROM: NULL, (1897), NULL, Ireland