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
As an old soldier I admit the cowardice : it's as universal as sea sickness, and matters just as little.
This creative man, who in his own selfish affairs is a coward to the backbone, will fight for an idea like a hero.
This comes of James teaching me to think for myself, and never to hold back out of fear of what other people may think of me. It works beautifully as long as I think the same things as he does.
The most tragic thing in the world is a sick doctor.
The most striking result of our present system of farming out the national land and capital to private individuals has been the division of society into hostile classes, with large appetites and no dinners at one extreme, and large dinners no appetit
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
Do you know what a pessimist is? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
No question is so difficult to answer as that which the answer is obvious.
A family enjoying the unspeakable peace and freedom of being orphans
It is fortunate to come of distinguished ancestry. - It is not less so to be such that people do not care to inquire whether you are of high descent or not.
I write plays because I like it and because I cannot remember any period in my life when I could have been inventing people and scenes. I am not primarily a story teller : things occur to me first as seems with action and dialogue as moments, develop
Kings are not born: they are made by universal hallucination
It is only natural that a man should have established friendly relationship with the wives of his friends, but if he is wise he quits all ideas of sex out of the question.
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses