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
I never accepted a knighthood because to me, is honour enough?
I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
You propound a complicated arithmetical problem: say cubing a number containing four digits. Give me a slate and half an hour's time, and I can produce a wrong answer.
What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.
Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?
I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.
The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.
Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap
The only time my education was interrupted was when I was in school.
Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.