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
When the horrors of anarchy force us to set up laws that forbid us to fight and torture one another for sport, we still snatch at every excuse for declaring individuals outside the protection of law and torturing them to our hearts content.
For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.
Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.
While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: "To ----, with esteem, George Bernard Shaw." He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: "With renewed esteem, George Bernard Shaw.
You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.
You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?
The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years.
The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.
Syllables govern the world.
General consultant to mankind.
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
Virtue is insufficient temptation.