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
The art of government is the organization of idolatry. The bureaucracy consists of functionaries; the aristocracy, of idols; the democracy, of idolaters. The populace cannot understand the bureaucracy: it can only worship the national idols.
If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.
Vulgarity in a king flatters the majority of the nation.
My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately
I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power and the glory. I say to them You are supreme: exercise your power. They say, That's right: tell us what to do; and I tell them. I say Exercise our vote intelligently by voting for me. And they do. That's democracy; and a splendid thing it is too for putting the right men in the right place.
Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?
When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.
The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.
The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.
Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.
Here there is no hope, and consequently no duty, no work, nothing to be gained by praying, nothing to be lost by doing what you like. Hell, in short, is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.
How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.
Being hurt by someone you truly care about leaves a hole in you heart that only love can fill.
There are only two classes in good society in England: the equestrian classes and the neurotic classes.