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 am sick of reasonable people: they see all the reasons for being lazy and doing nothing.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
It's a funny thing about that bust. As time goes on it seems to get younger and younger.
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
My way of joking is telling the truth; that is the funniest joke in the world
Ladies and gentleman are permitted to have friends in the kennel, but not in the kitchen.
A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
Two people getting together to write a book is like three people getting together to have a baby. One of them is superfluous.
A sensitive boy's humiliations may be very good fun for ordinary thick-skinned grown-ups; but to the boy himself theyareso acute, so ignominious, that he cannot confess themcannot but deny them passionately.
I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases.
Who is this Baby Ruth? And what does she do?
I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.
The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.
There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.