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
The universal regard for money is the one hopeful fact in our civilization. Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity and beauty . . . . Not the least of its virtues is that it destroys basic people as certainly as it fortifies and dignifies noble people.
A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be put out of existence simply because it wastes other people's time to look after them.
Some look at things that are, and ask why. I dream of things that never were and ask why not?
We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!
Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it.
I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.
Think of the fierce energy concentrated in an acorn! You bury it in the ground, and it explodes into an oak! Bury a sheep, and nothing happens but decay.
Better never than late.
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.
An interesting play cannot in the nature of things mean anything but a play in which problems of conduct and character of personalimportance to the audience are raised and suggestively discussed.
As long as more people will pay admission to a theater to see a naked body than to see a naked brain, the drama will languish.