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
A family enjoying the unspeakable peace and freedom of being orphans
Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the interest of the children.
A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.
There is only one person an English girl hates more than she hates her elder sister; and that is her mother.
The test of a man or woman's breeding is how they behave in a quarrel.
If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton, you may as well make it dance.
When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.
A happy family is but an earlier heaven.
Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and to mankind is to bring up a family.
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.