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
Political necessities sometime turn out to be political mistakes.
Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.
In the right key one can say anything. In the wrong key, nothing: the only delicate part is the establishment of the key.
The ordinary man is an anarchist. He wants to do as he likes. He may want his neighbour to be governed, but he himself doesn't want to be governed. He is mortally afraid of government officials and policemen.
Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error.
Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
What is both surprising and delightful is that the spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game...There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.
The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.
Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
Experience fails to teach where there is no desire to learn.