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
George Bernard Shaw quotes about
If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.
It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.
Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow.
All progress is due to the unreasonable person.
You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .
Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is superfluous.
It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.
Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.
It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.
Hell is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.
That older and greater church to which I belong: the church where the oftener you laugh the better, because by laughter only can you destroy evil without malice
My only policy is to profess evil and do good.
From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.
Woman's happiness begins with her first love and ends about then