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
Poverty does not produce unhappiness: It produces degradation.
If the announcer can produce the impression that he is a gentleman, he may pronounce as he pleases.
Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.
Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.
I assume that to prevent illness in later life, you should never have been born at all.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.
Nothing remains beautiful and interesting except thought, because the thought is the life.
It is not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid.
Every step of progress means a duty repudiated, and a scripture torn up.
Money is the counter that enables life to be lived socially; it is life as truly as sovereigns and banknotes are money.
Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find? That the stables are the real centre of the household.
Nature holds no brief for the human experiment; it must stand or fall by its results.
Dancing is a very crude attempt to get into the rhythm of life.