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
The man who listens to Reason is lost: Reason enslaves all whose minds are not strong enough to master her
I flatly declare that a man fed on whisky and dead bodies cannot do the finest work of which he is capable
In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine
Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.
A man who never missed an occasion to let slip an opportunity.
Always let your flattery be seen through for what really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself.
Do you know what a pessimist is? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
Better a leader of Fabianism than a chorus man in parliament.
It is only natural that a man should have established friendly relationship with the wives of his friends, but if he is wise he quits all ideas of sex out of the question.
But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.
Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid of.
He's a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage