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
With the exception of capitalism, there is nothing so revolting as revolution.
When a man teaches something he does not know to somebody else who has no aptitude for it, and gives him a certificate of proficiency, the latter has completed the education of a gentleman.
The great danger of conversion in all ages has been that when the religion of the high mind is offered to the lower mind, the lower mind, feeling its fascination without understanding it, and being incapable of rising to it, drags it down to its level by degrading it.
When the military man approaches, the world locks up its spoons and packs off its womankind.
The utmost I can bear for myself in my best days is that I was one of the hundred best playwrights in the world, which is hardly a supreme distinction.
If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.
I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.
Let a short Act of Parliament be passed, placing all street musicians outside the protection of the law, so that any citizen may assail them with stones, sticks, knives, pistols or bombs without incurring any penalties.
In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty shillings a week to twelve thousand a year. They find their own dreams; but I look after the drainage.
It was from Handel that I learned that style consists in force of assertion.
Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.
God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.
Though all society is founded on intolerance, all improvement is founded on tolerance.
A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.