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
People who say it cannot be done should not interrupt those who are doing it.
There is not one single established religion that an intelligent, educated man can believe.
We don't stop playing because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing.
A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.
Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst followers
A Native American elder once described his own inner struggles in this manner: Inside of me there are two dogs. One of the dogs is mean and evil. The other dog is good. The mean dog fights the good dog all the time. When asked which dog wins, he reflected for a moment and replied, The one I feed the most.
It's a pity youth is wasted on the young.
I like a bit of a mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog; they're the best for every day
I learned to speak as people learn to skate or cycle, by doggedly making a fool of myself until I got used to it
In the arts of life man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence, and famine
I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads and keep them in bowls of water around the house.
The earth is still bursting with the dead bodies of the victors.
The English are not very spiritual people, so they invented cricket to give them some idea of eternity
The established government has no more right to call itself the state than the smoke of London has to call itself the weather.