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
Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages. He who can, does. He who cannot teaches.
The 100% American is 99% idiot.
Our ideals, like the gods of old, are constantly demanding human sacrifices.
The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.
Marx's Kapital is not a treatise on socialism; it is a gerrymand against the bourgeoisie. It was supposed to be written for the working class, but the working man respects the bourgeoisie and wants to be a bourgeoisie. Marx never got a hold of him for a moment. It was the revolting sons of the bourgeoisie itself, like myself, that painted the flag red. The middle and upper classes are the revolutionary element in society. The proletariat is the conservative element.
A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.
It is not disbelief that is dangerous to our society; it is belief.
Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.
The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.
Custom will reconcile people to any atrocity, and fashion will drive them to acquire any custom.
Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!
My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
We learn from history that we learn nothing from history.