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 longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!
Hell is full of musical amateurs.
Music is the brandy of the damned.
All religions begin with a revolt against morality, and perish when morality conquers them.
This is the true joy in life, the being used for a purpose recognized by yourself as a mighty one.
The only sensible person is my tailor. He measures me anew each time he sees me.
Alcohol is the anesthesia by which we endure the operation of life.
Every child has a right to its own bent. . . . It has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether that way seems wise or foolish to others, exactly as an adult has. It has a right to privacy as to its own doings and its own affairs as much as if it were its own father.
I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.
Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
I want to be all used up when I die.
A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.
The great secret...is not having bad manners or good manners...but having the same manner for all human souls.
The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.