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Quotation by George Bernard Shaw
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George Bernard Shaw (368)Additional Sources
Tarleton, in Misalliance The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays with their Prefaces, vol. 4, ed. Dan H. Laurence (1972)Alfred Doolittle, in Pygmaliona member of the Caravan of the Curious, in The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God (1932)a naturalist, in The Adventures of the Black Girl in Her Search for God (1932)Anderson, in The Devil's Disciple The Bodley Head Bernard Shaw: Collected Plays with their Prefaces, vol. 2, ed. Dan H. Laurence (1971)Related Subjects
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Unless comedy touches me as well as amuses me, it leaves me with a sense of having wasted my evening. I go to the theatre to be moved to laughter, not to be tickled or bustled into it.
George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950), Anglo-Irish playwright, critic. first published in the Saturday Review (Feb. 23, 1895). "An Old New Play and a New Old One," The Drama Observed , ed. Bernard F. Dukore, Penn State Press (1993).
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