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
Where there is no knowledge ignorance calls itself science.
In the arts of life main invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery all the slaughter of plague, pestilence and famine. ... There is nothing in Man's industrial machinery but his greed and sloth: his heart is in his weapons.
Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.
I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.
We sing in a church, why can we not dance there?
I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.
We know there is intention and purpose in the universe, because there is intention and purpose in us.
Titles distinguish the mediocre, embarrass the superior, and are disgraced by the inferior.
The happiness of credulity is a cheap and dangerous quality.
People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.
He never does a proper thing without giving an improper reason for it.
Truth telling is not compatible with the defence of the realm.
Ladies and gentleman are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.
You have to choose between trusting to the natural stability of gold and the natural stability of the honesty and intelligence of the members of the government. And, with due respect to these gentlemen, I advise you, as long as the capitalist system lasts, to vote for gold.