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
The art of government is the organization of idolatry
We throw the whole drudgery of creation one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction
To correct an Englishman's pronunciation is to imply that he is not quite a gentleman.
What we want to see is the child in pursuit of knowledge and not knowledge in pursuit of the child
If any religion had the chance of ruling over England, nay Europe within the next hundred years, it could be Islam
If all the economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
If all the economists in the world were laid end to end, they would still not reach a conclusion.
If all economists were laid end to end, they would not reach a conclusion.
I am a gentleman: I live by robbing the poor.
I am sick of reasonable people: they see all the reasons for being lazy and doing nothing.
I am sure that if people had to choose between living where the noise of children never stopped and where it was never heard, all the good-natured and sound people would prefer the incessant noise to the incessant silence.
Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use.
But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
Obscenity can be found in every book except the telephone directory.