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
Every man to whom salvation is offered has an inalienable natural right to say 'No, thank you: I prefer to retain my full moral responsibility: it is not good for me to be able to load a scapegoat with my sins: I should be less careful how I committed them if I knew they would cost me nothing.
My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen.
I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everyone there looks an original.
Grain by grain, a loaf. Stone upon stone, a palace.
Ireland, sir, for good or evil, is like no other place under heaven, and no man can touch its sod or breathe its air without becoming better or worse.
It is difficult, if not impossible, for most people to think otherwise than in the fashion of their own period.
We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.
If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat
There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.
We are all victims of the violence that animals suffer... their liberation is also our liberation.
Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.
Although I cannot lay an egg, I am a very good judge of omelettes
Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.
We are the living graves of murdered beasts, slaughtered to satisfy our appetites. How can we hope in this world to attain the peace we say we are so anxious for?