George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw, known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic and polemicist whose influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond. He wrote more than sixty plays, including major works such as Man and Superman, Pygmalionand Saint Joan. With a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory, Shaw became the leading dramatist of his generation, and in 1925 was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature...
NationalityIrish
ProfessionPlaywright
Date of Birth26 July 1856
CityDublin, Ireland
CountryIreland
Life is a disease; and the only difference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives
When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.
It is well to be off with the old woman before you're on with the new.
The statesman cannot govern without stability of belief, true or false.
What I say today everybody will say tomorrow, though they will not remember who put it into their heads. Indeed they will be right for I never remember who puts things into my head : it is the Zeitgeist.
Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus.
Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.
The Englishmen is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.
Popular Christianity has for its emblem a gibbet, for its chief sensation a sanginary execution after torture, for its central mystery is an insane vengeance bought off by a trumpery expiation. But there is a nobler and profounder Christianity which affirms the sacred mystery of equality and forbids the glaring futility and folly of vengeance.
Stop being Jews and start being human beings.
I never accepted a knighthood because to me, is honour enough?
What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.
I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.