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
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.
A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.
Whisky is liquid sunshine.
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.
Hell is full of musical amateurs.
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.
What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.
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.
Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.