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
Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it
Creation is a miracle of daily recurrence. 'A miracle a minute' would not be a bad slogan for God.
When George Bernard Shaw visited New Zealand a reporter asked him his impression of the place and, after a pause, Shaw is said to have replied: "Altogether too many sheep
There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he will always declare that it is his duty.
When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner.
When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical.
A man learns to skate by staggering about making a fool of himself. Indeed he progressed in all things by making a fool of himself.
Always let your flattery be seen through for what really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering
A man's interest in the world is only the overflow of his interest in himself
A man of great common sense and good taste -- meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
A man of great common sense and good taste is a man without originality or moral courage.