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
A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.
Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord.
A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.
People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich.
Woman's happiness begins with her first love and ends about then
From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.
Morality is not respectability.
No man fully capable of his own language ever masters another.
My only policy is to profess evil and do good.
You can lose a man like that by your own death, but not by his.
A woman whose face looked as if it had been made of sugar and someone had licked it.
That older and greater church to which I belong: the church where the oftener you laugh the better, because by laughter only can you destroy evil without malice
Hell is a place where you have nothing to do but amuse yourself.
This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets.