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 English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.
Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.
Patriotism is a pernicious, psychopathic form of idiocy.
The technical history of modern harmony is a history of growth of toleration by the human ear of chords that at first sounded discordant and senseless to the main body of contemporary professional musicians.
Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.
Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.
You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'.
A healthy nation is as unconscious of its nationality as a healthy man of his bones. But if you break a person's nationality it will think of nothing else but getting it set again.
Who is this Baby Ruth? And what does she do?
Never repeat old grievances.
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.
We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.