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 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
Under exciting circumstances, wealth cannot be enjoyed without dishonor, or foregone without misery.
You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it, better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world
Even the fact that doctors themselves die of the very diseases they profess to cure passes unnoticed. We do not shoot out our lips and shake our heads, saying, 'They save others: themselves they cannot save':
As long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.
I flatly declare that a man fed on whisky and dead bodies cannot do the finest work of which he is capable
The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes,respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.
A mind of the calibre of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows.
If you're not producing as much as you consume, or perhaps a little more, then clearly we cannot use the big organization of our society for the purpose of keeping you alive, because your life does not benefit us, and it can't be of very much use to yourself.
Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
You are a very poor soldier: a chocolate cream soldier!
Remember, our conduct is influenced not by our experience but by our expectations.
Kings are not born: they are made by universal hallucination
You'll get more out of me and a machine than you will out of twenty laborers, and not so much to drink either