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 cannot be a hero without being a coward.
Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.
I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist.
The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.
Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.
The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
Capitalism has destroyed our belief in any effective power but that of self interest backed by force.
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.
Instead of Otello being an Italian opera written in the style of Shakespeare, Othello is a play written by Shakespeare in the style of Italian opera.
God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit.
The minorities are sometimes right. The majorities never.