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
Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.
Only Lawyers and mental defectives are automatically exempt for jury duty.
If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.
What really flatters a man is that you think him worth flattering.
Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination.
Fashions, after all, are only induced epidemics.
The worst cliques are those which consist of one man.
What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.
If parents would only realize how they bore their children.
Poverty blights whole cities; spreads horrible pestilences; strikes dead the very souls of all who come within sight, sound, or smell of it
The greatest evils and the worst of crimes is poverty; our first duty, a duty to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.
Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.
The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.
If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding out that he hates you like poison, you would soon have your eyes opened. There we do unkind things in a kind way: we say bitter things in a sweet voice: we always give our friends chloroform when we tear them to pieces.