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
It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
The thought of two thousand people crunching celery at the same time horrified me.
When two people are under the influence of the most violent, most insane, most delusive, and most transient of passions, they are required to swear that they will remain in that excited, abnormal, and exhausting condition continuously until death do them part.
Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.
Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.
Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
The love of economy is the root of all virtue.
Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.
My reputation grows with every failure.
Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it.
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.