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
What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that
If a woman can, by careful selection of a father and nourishment of herself, produce a citizen with efficient senses, sound organs and a good digestion, she should clearly be secured a sufficient reward for that natural service to make her willing to undertake and repeat it.
A man who has no office to go to -- I don't care who he is -- is a trial of which you can have no conception.
It is fortunate to come of distinguished ancestry. - It is not less so to be such that people do not care to inquire whether you are of high descent or not.
He knows nothing; he thinks he knows everything - that clearly points to a political career
Take the utmost care to get well born and well brought up.
The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men.
The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.
No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else.
What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
He knows nothing and thinks he knows everything. That points clearly to a political career.
If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat
Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.
When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it's called ferocity.