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
[Man] progresses in all things by making a fool of himself.
As you say, I am honoured and famous and rich. But as I have to do all the hard work, and suffer an increasing multitude of fools gladly, it does not feel any better than being reviled, infamous and poor, as I used to be.
Indifference is the essence of inhumanity.
Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.
Few people think more than two or three times a year; I have made an international reputation for myself by thinking once or twice a week.
I finished my first book seventy-six years ago. I offered it to every publisher on the English-speaking earth I had ever heard of. Their refusals were unanimous: and it did not get into print until, fifty years later; publishers would publish anything that had my name on it.
I have to live for others and not for myself: that's middle-class morality.
Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.
You have nothing to do but mention the quantum theory, and people will take your voice for the voice of science, and belive anything.
Democracy is a form of government that substitutes election by the incompetent many for appointment by the corrupt few.
The first condition of progress is the removal of censorship.
Hegel was right when he said that we learn from history that man can never learn anything from history.
I have studied him - the wonderful man - and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be called the saviour of humanity.
The most sincere form of love is love for food