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
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.
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years, and justify our experience...on pain of liquidation.
We are ashamed of everything that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of our incomes, of our accents, of our opinions, of our experience, just as we are ashamed of our naked skins
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
The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.
Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present.
The Nazi movement is in many respects one which has my warmest sympathy.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.