{"author":"George Bernard Shaw","author_id":"George+Bernard+Shaw","total_quotes":404,"quotes":[{"text":"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.","author":"George Bernard Shaw","tags":["ideas"],"id":4241,"author_id":"George+Bernard+Shaw"},{"text":"My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.","author":"George Bernard Shaw","tags":["humor"],"id":4773,"author_id":"George+Bernard+Shaw"},{"text":"In your dread of dictators you established a state of society in which every ward boss is a dictator, every financier a dictator, every private employer a dictator, all with the livelihood of the workers at their mercy, and no public responsibility. And to symbolize this state of things, this defeat of all government, you have set up in New York Harbour a monstrous idol which you call Liberty. The only thing that remains to complete this monument is to put on its pedestal the inscription written by Dante on the gate of Hell ‘All hope abandon, ye who enter here.","author":"George Bernard Shaw","tags":["america","dictator","dread","fear","politics","socialism"],"id":5482,"author_id":"George+Bernard+Shaw"},{"text":"When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.","author":"George Bernard Shaw","tags":["life","marriage"],"id":5968,"author_id":"George+Bernard+Shaw"},{"text":"An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.","author":"George Bernard Shaw","tags":["england"],"id":6145,"author_id":"George+Bernard+Shaw"},{"text":"England and America are two countries separated by the same language.","author":"George Bernard Shaw","tags":["america","britain","languages","uk","usa"],"id":6550,"author_id":"George+Bernard+Shaw"},{"text":"Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?","author":"George Bernard Shaw","tags":["brandy","hell","music"],"id":7071,"author_id":"George+Bernard+Shaw"},{"text":"One man who has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.","author":"George Bernard Shaw","tags":["mind"],"id":7485,"author_id":"George+Bernard+Shaw"},{"text":"As long as I have a want  I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death.","author":"George Bernard Shaw","tags":["motivational"],"id":7791,"author_id":"George+Bernard+Shaw"},{"text":"England and America are two countries separated by the same language.","author":"George Bernard Shaw","tags":["england","u","k"],"id":8908,"author_id":"George+Bernard+Shaw"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":404,"pages":41,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}