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
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.
It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public.
When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it's called ferocity.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity
When a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity. The distinction between crime and justice is no greater.
Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit, though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers
Woman reduces us all to a common denomination
Crude classifications and false generalizations are the curse of organized life.
Critics, like other people, see what they look for, not what is actually before them.
An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination.
England and America are two countries divided by a common language.
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.
Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does
The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a great refuge from home life