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
Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young
The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.
It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.
Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap
There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
Two percent of the people think; three percent of the people think they think; and ninety-five percent of the people would rather die than think.
Whilst we have prisons it matters little who occupies the cells.
Vice is waste of life. Poverty, obedience and celibacy are the canonical vices.
When a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity. The distinction between crime and justice is no greater.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity
When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it's called ferocity.
The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a great refuge from home life
The government who robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins