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
Revolutionary movements attract those who are not good enough for established institutions as well as those who are too good for them
Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
Do not love your neighbour as yourself. If you are on good terms with yourself it is an impertinence; if on bad, an injury.
It shows how dangerous it is to be too good
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 of great common sense and good taste -- meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
A man of great common sense and good taste is a man without originality or moral courage.
My mother married a very good man . . . and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.
If Pygmalion is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.
He's a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage
He's a man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good.
The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.
The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now.