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
I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.
Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.
Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.
My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself.
I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.
Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.