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
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity
A pessimist thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
Do you know what a pessimist is? A man who thinks everybody as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.
If you lived in London, where the whole system is one of false good-fellowship, and you may know a man for twenty years without finding out that he hates you like poison, you would soon have your eyes opened. There we do unkind things in a kind way: we say bitter things in a sweet voice: we always give our friends chloroform when we tear them to pieces.
Who are those we love? Only those we do not hate.
If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.
If there is anything I hate in a woman, it's want of character.
I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.
It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
We're human beings we are - all of us - and that's what people are liable to forget. Human beings don't like peace and goodwill and everybody loving everybody else. However much they may think they do, they don't really because they're not made like that. Human beings love eating and drinking and loving and hating. They also like showing off, grabbing all they can, fighting for their rights and bossing anybody who'll give them half a chance.
Some persons, by hating vice too much, come to love men too little. Hatred is self-punishment. Hatred is the cowards revenge for being intimidated.
Hate is the revenge of a coward intimidated.
I hate the poor and look forward eagerly to their extermination.