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
While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?
There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.
Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.
When you loved me I gave you the whole sun and stars to play with. I gave you eternity in a single moment, strength of the mountains in one clasp of your arms, and the volume of all the seas in one impulse of your soul.
The wheels are turning, but the hamsters are all dead. Make it idiot-proof and someone will make a better idiot. I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig, you get dirty; and besides, the pig likes it.
To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.
If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.
Religion is a good invention in times of stress.
Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either law or religion.
It is feeling that sets a man thinking, and not thought that sets him feeling.
The man who has never made a mistake will never make anything else.
It is not enough to know what is good: you must be able to do it.
I no longer desire happiness: life is nobler than that.
Treat a friend as a person who may someday become your enemy; an enemy as a person who may someday become your friend.