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
Every unnatural activity of the brain is as mischievous as any unnatural activity of the body and that pressing people to learn things they do not want to know is as unwholesome and disastrous as feeding them on sawdust.
Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.
Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married
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
He didn't dare to, because his father had a weak heart and habitually threatened to drop dead if anybody hurt his feelings. You may have noticed that people with weak hearts are the tyrants of English married life.
People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got: everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them
Few people think more than two or three times a year. I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
Common people do not pray, my lord: they only beg
Reasonable people adapt themselves to the world. Unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. All progress, therefore, depends on unreasonable people.
Common people do not pray; they only beg.
I learned to speak as people learn to skate or cycle, by doggedly making a fool of myself until I got used to it
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.