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
Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
Science never solves a problem without creating ten more.
Choose silence of all virtues, for by it you hear other men's imperfections, and conceal your own.
A gentleman is one who puts more into the world than he takes out.
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.
Jesus remains unshaken as the practical man; and we stand exposed as the fools, the blunderers, the unpractical visionaries.
Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.
Nobody can live in society without conventions. The reason why sensible people are as conventional as they can bear to be is that conventionality saves so much time and thought and trouble and social friction of one sort or another that it leaves them much more leisure time for freedom than unconventionality does.