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
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.
A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
I'm one of the undeserving poor: that's what I am. Think of what that means to a man. It means that he's up agen middle class morality all the time.... What is middle class morality? Just an excuse for never giving me anything.
I must have been an insufferable child; all children are.
A man who desires to get married should know everything or nothing.
You know, Tolstoy, like myself, wasn't taken in by superstitions like science and medicine.
I never expect a soldier to think.
Nietzche . . . he was a confirmed Life Force worshipper. It was he who raked up the Superman, who is as old as Prometheus; and the 20th century will run after this newest of the old crazes when it gets tired of the world, the flesh, and your humble servant.
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out.
Reviewing has one advantage over suicide: in suicide you take it out on yourself; in reviewing you take it out on other people.
Take the utmost care to get well born and well brought up.
Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers.
History, sir, will tell lies as usual.