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
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.
The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and about all time.
The British soldier can stand up to anything except the British War Office.
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.
Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.
A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.
The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.
A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.