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
Some men see things as they are and say, ''Why?'' I of dream things that never were, and say, ''Why not?''
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
My way of joking is telling the truth; that is the funniest joke in the world
My mother married a very good man . . . and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.
I quite agree with you, sir, but what can two do against so many?
Artists do not prove things. They do not need to. They know them.
Every unnatural activity of the brain is as mischievous as any unnatural activity of the body and that pressing people to learn things they do not want to know is as unwholesome and disastrous as feeding them on sawdust.
The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me
The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
I flatly declare that a man fed on whisky and dead bodies cannot do the finest work of which he is capable
If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad.
The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes,respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.
The nations morals are like its teeth, the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.