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
Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.
Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married
There are only 2 qualities in the world: efficiency and inefficiency, and only 2 sorts of people: the efficient and the inefficient.
Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid of.
Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born
Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.
Life is a disease; and the only difference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being ended sooner.
Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire...
I have made it so perfectly clear in my tracts, articles, and books what was to be done that all Parliament has had to do was read my works and do the opposite
What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that
Woman's dearest delight is to wound Man's self-conceit, though Man's dearest delight is to gratify hers
Woman reduces us all to a common denomination
The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a great refuge from home life