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
(Democracy is a government) of the fools, for the fools, by the fools.
Do not love your neighbour as yourself. If you are on good terms with yourself it is an impertinence; if on bad, an injury.
Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
Youth is such a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
It shows how dangerous it is to be too good
It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public.
It is the sexless novel that should be distinguished: the sex novel is now normal.
It's a funny thing about that bust. As time goes on it seems to get younger and younger.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who haven't got it.
When I was a young man I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. I didn't want to be a failure, so I did ten times more work.
There are millions of vegetarians in the world but only one Bernard Shaw. You do not obtain eminence quite so cheaply as by eating macaroni instead of mutton chops.
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.