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
Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements in a given society.
Always let your flattery be seen through for what really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering
Old men are dangerous it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world
I write plays because I like it and because I cannot remember any period in my life when I could have been inventing people and scenes. I am not primarily a story teller : things occur to me first as seems with action and dialogue as moments, develop
The nations morals are like its teeth, the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.
Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
He didn't dare to, because his father had a weak heart and habitually threatened to drop dead if anybody hurt his feelings. You may have noticed that people with weak hearts are the tyrants of English married life.
People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got: everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself.
Do you know what a pessimist is? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
Science is always simple and profound. It is only half truths that are dangerous.
A pessimist thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
The longer I live, the more I see that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time.
The earth is still bursting with the dead bodies of the victors.