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
Liberty is the breath of life to nations.
What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.
A man of my spiritual intensity does not eat corpses.
What you are to do without me I cannot imagine.
I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.
What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
If history repeats itself, and the unexpected always happens, how incapable must Man be of learning from experience.
The sound body is the product of the sound mind.
Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.
I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like the male spider who is killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his courtship. I like the state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.
Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.
The more I see of the moneyed classes, the more I understand the guillotine.