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
Some men see things as they are and say, ''Why?'' I of dream things that never were, and say, ''Why not?''
Common people do not pray, my lord: they only beg
The established government has no more right to call itself the state than the smoke of London has to call itself the weather.
I wish all Americans were as blind as you.
The true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art
The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.
Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born
Life is a disease; and the only difference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives
Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid of.
England and America are two countries divided by a common language.
Never forget that two blacks do not make a white.
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire...
He's a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage
Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.