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
If Pygmalion is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.
If you have an apple and I have an apple and we exchange these apples then you and I will still each have one apple. But if you have an idea and I have an idea and we exchange these ideas, then each of us will have two ideas.
If you go to Heaven without being naturally qualified for it, you will not enjoy yourself there
Changeable women are more enduring than monotonous ones. They are sometimes murdered but seldom deserted.
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time
Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo
Government is not every body's job. It is a highly skilled vocation.
Great Britain and the United States are nations separated by a common language.
He's a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage
He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich, something for nothing.
Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich: something for nothing
Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.
There is nothing on earth intended for innocent people so horrible as a school.