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
The pianoforte is the most important of all musical instruments; its invention was to music what the invention of printing was to poetry.
It's not that I'm so clever, it is that others are so stupid.
Nobody supposes that doctors are less virtuous than judges; but a judge whose salary and reputation depended on whether the verdict was for plaintiff or defendant, prosecutor or prisoner, would be as little trusted as a general in the pay of the enemy.
When men die of disease they are said to die from natural causes. When they recover (and mostly they do) the doctor gets the credit of curing them.
Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men.
The thief who is in prison is not necessarily more dishonest than his fellows at large, but mostly one who, through ignorance or stupidity [or racism or poverty! - Draffan] steals in a way that is not customary. He snatches a loaf from the baker's counter and is promptly run into gaol. Another man snatches bread from the table of hundreds of widows and orphans and similar credulous souls who do not know the ways of company promoters; and, as likely as not, he is run into Parliament.
Assassination on the scaffold is the worst form of assassination.
Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft
The problem with the press is that they can't tell the difference between a bicycle crash and the end of civilization.
The ideal love affair should be conducted by post.
A married man is a man with a past, while a bachelor is a man with a future.
An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.
Remember always that the least plain sister is the family beauty.
Our political experiment of democracy, the last refuge of cheap misgovernment.