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
It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I should die of starvation.
Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.
I don't know what to say about this book. The experience on which it is founded is so extraordinary, that an honest record of it should be preserved . . . But it would have driven me mad; and I am not sure that the author came out of it without a slight derangement.
It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.
Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is superfluous.
The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.
You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .
All progress is due to the unreasonable person.
..discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher...
Not everybody is strong enough to endure life without an anesthetic. Drink probably averts more gross crime than it causes.
The poor silly-clever Irishman takes off his hat to God's Englishman.
The body was the slave of the vortex; but the slave has become the master; and we must free ourselves from that tyranny. It is this stuff [ indicating her body ], this flesh and blood and bone and all the rest of it, that is intolerable. Even prehistoric man dreamed of what he called an astral body, and asked who would deliver him from the body of this death.
Your father is a fool skin deep; but you are a fool to your very marrow.
It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.