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
There are two tragedies in life. One is not to get your heart's desire. The other is to get it.
When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.
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
Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born
A family enjoying the unspeakable peace and freedom of being orphans
I've been offered titles, but I think they get one into disreputable company.
If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad.
Morals being mostly only social habits and circumstantial necessities.
The man who listens to Reason is lost: Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her
If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentlemen, he may pronounce as he pleases.
It does not follow . . . that the right to criticize Shakespeare involves the power of writing better plays. And in fact . . . I do not profess to write better plays.
One touch of Darwin makes the whole world kin.
Remember, our conduct is influenced not by our experience but by our expectations.
I flatly declare that a man fed on whisky and dead bodies cannot do the finest work of which he is capable