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
The English are not very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity
He knows nothing; he thinks he knows everything - that clearly points to a political career
He who slays a king and He who dies for him are alike idolaters
Hamlet's experience simply could not have happened to a plumber
Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the very worst
All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it
The most tragic thing in the world is a sick doctor.
Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity
Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.
A man who never missed an occasion to let slip an opportunity.
The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupation.
I have made it so perfectly clear in my tracts, articles, and books what was to be done that all Parliament has had to do was read my works and do the opposite
Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married