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
Those who are looking for paradise on Earth should come and see Dubrovnik.
It is said that every people has the Government it deserves. It is more to the point that every Government has the electorate it deserves; for the orator of the front bench can edify or debauch an ignorant electorate at will.
This is the true joy of life-the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one, the being thoroughly worn out before you are thrown to the scrap-heap; the being a force of nature instead of a feverish, selfish clod of ailments and grievances.
English is the easiest language to speak badly.
The test of good education is seeing how it behaves in a fight.
A man of genius is not a man who sees more than other men do. On the contrary, it is very often found that he is absentminded andobserves much less than other people.... Why is it that the public have such an exaggerated respect for him--after he is dead? The reason is that the man of genius understands the importance of the few things he sees.
I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people.
A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.
It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.
If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.
There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.