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
Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.
Those who do not know how to live must make a merit of dying.
Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill one another if it is not done.
When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.
Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
Property is organized robbery.
I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.
It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.