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
The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.
An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed.
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.
Never waste jealousy on a real man: it is the imaginary man that supplants us all in the long run.
The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.
Perhaps you know some well-off families who do not seem to suffer from their riches. They do not overeat themselves; they find occupations to keep themselves in health; they do not worry about their position; they put their money into safe investments and are content with a low rate of interest; and they bring up their children to live simply and do useful work. But this means that they do not live like rich people at all, and might therefore just as well have ordinary incomes.
He who can, does. He who cannot, teaches.
No man ever believes that the Bible means what it says: He is always convinced that it says what he means.
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
All progress means war with society.
No man manages his affairs as well as a tree does
Life is a first draft... with NO rewrite.