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
If you are going to let the fear of poverty govern your life, your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
You sometimes have to answer to a woman according to her womanishness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
Changeable women are more enduring than monotonous ones. They are sometimes murdered but seldom deserted.
If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, they would still not reach a conclusion.
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
The most striking result of our present system of farming out the national land and capital to private individuals has been the division of society into hostile classes, with large appetites and no dinners at one extreme, and large dinners no appetit
Better a leader of Fabianism than a chorus man in parliament.
The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me
It is only natural that a man should have established friendly relationship with the wives of his friends, but if he is wise he quits all ideas of sex out of the question.
Kings are not born: they are made by universal hallucination
But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.