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
A nap, my friend, is a brief period of sleep which overtakes superannuated persons when they endeavor to entertain unwelcome visitors or to listen to scientific lectures.
Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.
Audacious ribald: your laughter will finish in hideous boredom before morning.
Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice
Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing -a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.
Sister, you're trying to keep me alive as an old curiosity, but I'm done, I'm finished, I'm going to die.
The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
Those who admire modern civilization usually identify it with the steam engine and the electric telegraph.
Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.
It is the inefficiency and sham of ... our schools ... that save us from being dashed on the rocks of false doctrine instead of drifting down the midstream of mere ignorance.
Hell is paved with good intentions, not with bad ones. All men mean well.
What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it.
I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.
You accepted Allah or you had your throat cut by someone who did accept him, and who went to Paradise for having sent you to Hell.