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
We are members one of another; so that you cannot injure or help your neighbor without injuring or helping yourself.
Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has been proved to be indispensable for life. But I go marching on.
Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.
Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
If there was nothing wrong in the world there wouldn't be anything for us to do.
I believe in Michelangelo, Velasquez, and Rembrandt; in the might of design, the mystery of color, the redemption of all things by Beauty everlasting, and the message of Art that has made these hands blessed. Amen. Amen.
I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.
When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.
Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.
Self-denial is not a virtue; it is only the effect of prudence on rascality.
The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.
A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.
I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.