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
Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.
Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.
A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.
I'm only a beer teetotaler, not a champagne teetotaler; I don't like beer.
Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.
All the sweetness of religion is conveyed to the world by the hands of storytellers and image-makers. Without their fictions the truths of religion would for the multitude be neither intelligible nor even apprehensible; and the prophets would prophesy and the teachers teach in vain.
Great art is never produced for its own sake. It is too difficult to be worth the effort.
The only way in which a nation can make itself wealthy and prosperous is by good housekeeping: that is, by providing for its wants in the order of their importance, and allowing no money to be wasted on whims and luxuries until necessities have been thoroughly served.
When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change
It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.
The greatest thing in life is to die young - but delay it as long as possible.
Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.
Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.
I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.