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
You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.
Set me anything to do as a task, and it is inconceivable the desire I have to do something else.
The heart of an Irishman is nothing but his imagination
Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!
I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.
She has mischievious moments in when she wishes she could get him alone on a desert island...
The best way to get your point across is to entertain.
I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog.
A man learns to skate by staggering about and making a fool of himself. Indeed he progresses in all things by resolutely making a fool of himself.
What is the matter with universities is that the students are school children, whereas it is of the very essence of university education that they should be adults.
The secret of being miserable is to have leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure for it is occupation, because occupation means pre-occupation; and the pre-occupied person is neither happy nor unhappy, but simply alive and active. That is why it is necessary to happiness that one should be tired.
You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.
Do you think that the things people make fools of themselves about are any less real and true than the things they behave sensibly about? They are more true: they are the only things that are true.
I do not know what I think until I write it.