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
Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted.
You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.
It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.
Woman reduces us all to a common denominator.
Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.
Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's.
A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.
We throw the whole drudgery of creation on one sex, and then imply that no female of any delicacy would initiate any effort in that direction.
Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men.
To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.
What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.
We have in England a curious belief in first-rate people, meaning all the people we do not know; and this consoles us for the undeniable second-rateness of the people we do know.
We are not taught to think decently on sex subjects, and consequently we have no language for them except indecent language.
It is well to be off with the old woman before you're on with the new.