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
Being a mother means that your heart is no longer yours; it wanders wherever your children do
The notion that inspiration is something that happened thousands of years ago, and was then finished and done with. . . the theory that God retired from business at that period and has not been heard from since, is as silly as it is blasphemous.
Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.
What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.
The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.
The best bought-up children are those who have seen thier parents as they are. Hypocrisy is not the first duty of a parent.
Brigham Young lived to become immortal in history as an American Moses by leading his people through the wilderness into an unpromised land.
The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.
People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good.
Be like the sun and meadow, which are not in the least concerned about the coming winter.
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.
To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching Man to regard himself as an experiment in the realization of God, to regard his hands as God's hand, his brain as God's brain, his purpose as God's purpose. He must regard God as a helpless Longing, which longed him into existence by its desperate need for an executive organ.
Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.