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
I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.
If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.
Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.
Marriage is good enough for the lower classes: they have facilities for desertion that are denied to us.
I never accepted a knighthood because to me, is honour enough?
Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.
Revolutionary moments attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them.
We educate one another; and we cannot do this if half of us consider the other half not good enough to talk to.
When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it's called ferocity.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity
When a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity. The distinction between crime and justice is no greater.
The roulette table pays nobody except him who keeps it. Nevertheless, a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette wheels is unknown.
The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not. The cure is occupation.
The slave of fear: the worst of slaveries