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
I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.
To me the sole hope of human salvation lies in teaching.
Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.
Whisky is liquid sunshine.
In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.
I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
Criminals do not die by the hands of the law. They die by the hands of other men.
The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.
If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.
The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she’s treated.
In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.
Atrocities are not less atrocities when they occur in laboratories and are called medical research.