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
Do not love your neighbour as yourself. If you are on good terms with yourself it is an impertinence; if on bad, an injury.
Revolutionary movements attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them
He's a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage
He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
If Pygmalion is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.
My mother married a very good man . . . and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.
It shows how dangerous it is to be too good
A man of great common sense and good taste -- meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
A man of great common sense and good taste is a man without originality or moral courage.
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