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
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts.
Peace is not only better than war, but infinitely more arduous.
It is most unwise for people in love to marry.
A man never tells you anything until you contradict him.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.
Human beings are the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.
In heaven an angel is nobody in particular.
A perpetual holiday is a good working definition of hell.
The great advantage of a hotel is that it is a refuge from home life.
I dislike feeling at home when I am abroad.
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
The man with a toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound. The poverty-stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.