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
All progress depends on the unreasonable man.
Success covers a multitude of blunders.
My main reason for adopting literature as a profession was that, as the author is never seen by his clients, he need not dress respectably.
Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.
The possibilities are numerous once we decide to act and not react.
New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.
The average age (longevity) of a meat eater is 63. I am on the verge of 85 and still work as hard as ever. I have lived quite long enough and am trying to die; but I simply cannot do it. A single beef-steak would finish me; but I cannot bring myself to swallow it. I am oppressed with a dread of living forever. That is the only disadvantage of vegetarianism.
Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.
The only person who acts sensibly is my tailor. He takes my measure anew every time he sees me. Everyone else goes by their old measurements.
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery.
I am of the opinion that my life belongs to the whole community and as long as I live, it is my privilege to do for it whatever I can.
He who has never hoped can never despair
I choose not to make a graveyard of my body for the rotting corpses of dead animals.