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
Modern poverty is not the poverty that was blest in the Sermon on the Mount.
The educated man is a greater nuisance than the uneducated one.
There is at bottom only one genuinely scientific treatment for all diseases, and that is to stimulate the phagocytes.
An index is a great leveller.
There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.
The politician who once had to learn to flatter Kings has now to learn how to fascinate, amuse, coax, humbug, frighten, or otherwise strike the fancy of the electorate.
The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.
Marriage is tolerable enough in its way if youre easygoing and dont expect too much from it. But it doesnt bear thinking about.
Like fingerprints, all marriages are different.
Get married, but never to a man who is home all day.
A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit at table whilst he reels them off to every new visitor.
Life is too short for men to take it seriously.
It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.
He who bears the brand of Cain shall rule the earth.