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
You will never have a quiet world until you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
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.
Man is unique in that he has plans, purpose and goals which require the need for criteria of choice. The need for ethical value is within man whose future may largely be determined by the choice he make
It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves; for the orator of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will.