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
Mark Twain and I are in the same position. We have put things in such a way as to make people, who would otherwise hang us, believe that we are joking.
You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it, better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time
The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.
How can what an Englishman believes be hearsay? It is a contradiction in terms.
I believe that if a man like him were to assume the dictatorship of the modern world he would succeed in solving its problems in a way that would bring it the much needed peace and happiness: I have prophesied about the faith of Muhammad that it would be acceptable to the Europe of tomorrow as it is beginning to be acceptable to the Europe of today.
Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.
A thing that nobody believes cannot be proved too often.
You can feel nothing but a torment, and believe nothing but a lie. You will not raise your head to look at all the miracles of life that surround you; but you will run ten miles to see a fight or a death.
Just as the liar 's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed , but that he cannot believe any one else; so a guilty society can more easily be persuaded that any apparently innocent act is guilty than that any apparently guilty act is innocent.
I don't believe in morality . I'm a disciple of Bernard Shaw.