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
I make a fortune from criticizing the policy of the government, and then hand it over to the government in taxes to keep it going.
The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.
The Anti-Vivisector does not deny that physiologists must make experiments and even take chances with new methods. He says that they must not seek knowledge by criminal methods, just as they must not make money by criminal methods. He does not object to Galileo dropping cannon balls from the top of the leaning tower of Pisa; but he would object to shoving off two dogs or American tourists.
Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.
Those who won't hesitate to vivisect, won't hesitate to lie about it as well.
Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.
I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing
Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.
I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian.
The unconscious self is the real genius. Your breathing goes wrong the moment your conscious self meddles with it.
A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.
The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.
Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.
I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.