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
Every unnatural activity of the brain is as mischievous as any unnatural activity of the body and that pressing people to learn things they do not want to know is as unwholesome and disastrous as feeding them on sawdust.
Brains are not everything.
Let not the right side of your brain know what the left side doeth.
I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.
Though the Life Force supplies us with its own purpose, it has no other brains to work with than those it has painfully and imperfectly evolved in our heads.
If at age 20 you are not a Communist then you have no heart. If at age 30 you are not a Capitalist then you have no brains.
In Ireland they try to make a cat cleanly by rubbing its nose in its own filth. Mr. Joyce has tried the same treatment on the human subject. I hope it may prove successful.
I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads and keep them in bowls of water around the house.
The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes,respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.
The nations morals are like its teeth, the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.
The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me
The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
I like a bit of a mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog; they're the best for every day