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
You cannot believe in honor until you have achieved it, better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world
A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and non-veracity.
There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.
The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
Money is the most important thing in the world. It represents health, strength, honor, generosity, and beauty as conspicuously as the want of it represents illness, weakness, disgrace, meanness, and ugliness.
The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work
Vice is waste of life. Poverty, obedience and celibacy are the canonical vices.
Better a leader of Fabianism than a chorus man in parliament.
Even the fact that doctors themselves die of the very diseases they profess to cure passes unnoticed. We do not shoot out our lips and shake our heads, saying, 'They save others: themselves they cannot save':
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.
Beware of the pursuit of the Superhuman; it leads to an indiscriminate contempt for the human
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who looks at it when it has been in the house three days?