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
Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
Power does not corrupt men; fools, however, if they get into a position of power, corrupt power.
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.
The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.
The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
The worst sin toward our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity.
It is a curious sensation: the sort of pain that goes mercifully beyond our powers of feeling. When your heart is broken, your boats are burned: nothing matters any more. It is the end of happiness and the beginning of peace.