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
Very few people can afford to be poor.
Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.
No question is so difficult to answer as that to which the answer is obvious.
At present there is not a single credible established religion in the world.
Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty; what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.
From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.
Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world.
The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.
Some people look at the world and say 'why?' Some people look at the world and say 'why not?'
To be in hell is to drift; to be in heaven is to steer.
To be a champion you must live like one.
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.
Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.