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
A man who never missed an occasion to let slip an opportunity.
A man who has no office to go to -- I don't care who he is -- is a trial of which you can have no conception.
All progress is initiated by challenging current conceptions, and executed by supplanting existing institutions.
All my life, affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it
Bad theaters are as mischievous as bad schools.
As long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
You see things and you say, Why? But I dream things that never were and say, Why not?
You see things and say: Why? But I dream things that never where; and I say: Why not?
You sometimes have to answer to a woman according to her womanishness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly
A pessimist thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself.
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only comfortable
As a teacher of Greek I gave the intellectual man weapons against the common man. I now want to give the common man weapons against the intellectual man