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
Between persons of equal income there is no social distinction except the distinction of merit. Money is nothing: character, conduct, and capacity are everything. There would be great people and ordinary people and little people, but the great would always be those who had done great things, and never the idiots whose mothers had spoiled them and whose fathers had left them a hundred thousand a year; and the little would be persons of small minds and mean characters, and not poor persons who had never had a chance. That is why idiots are always in favor of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favor of equality.
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being ended sooner.
The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a great refuge from home life
Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want 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.
Great Britain and the United States are nations separated by a common language.
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.
Lack of money is the root of of all evil.
If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.
Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness
Doing what needs to be done may not make you happy, but it will make you great.