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
What I say today everybody will say tomorrow, though they will not remember who put it into their heads. Indeed they will be right for I never remember who puts things into my head : it is the Zeitgeist.
Remember that I too am mortal.
When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.
Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty.
Make it compulsory for a doctor using a brass plate to have inscribed on it, in addition to the letters indicating his qualifications, the words 'Remember that I too am mortal'.
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
Whilst we have prisons it matters little who occupies the cells.
Well, dearie, men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. But you can't blame them for that, can you?
Some men see things as they are and say, ''Why?'' I of dream things that never were, and say, ''Why not?''
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.