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
When a man of normal habits is ill, everyone hastens to assure him that he is going to recover. When a vegetarian is ill (which fortunately very seldom happens), everyone assures him that he is going to die, and that they told him so, and that it serves him right. They implore him to take at least a little gravy, so as to give himself a chance of lasting out the night
Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that
We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.
The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its clothes off.
Happiness and beauty are by-products. Folly is the direct pursuit of happiness and beauty.
People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them
Beware of the man whose God is in the skies.
A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.
We don't bother much about dress and manners in England, because as a nation we don't dress well and we've no manners.
An American has no sense of privacy. He does not know what it means.There is no such thing in the country.
Manners are more important than laws and upon them, to a great deal, the law depends....
Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.
At present, intelligent people do not have their children vaccinated, nor does the law now compel them to. The result is not, as the Jennerians prophesied, the extermination of the human race by smallpox; on the contrary more people are now killed by vaccination than by smallpox.
No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus.