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 have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.
The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
I'm an atheist and I thank God for it.
I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me.
NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.
The perfect love affair is one which is conducted entirely by post.
A socialist is somebody who doesn't have anything, and is ready to divide it up equally among everybody.
Beauty is all very well at first sight; but who ever looks at it when it has been in the house three days?
A cigarette is a pinch of tobacco rolled in paper with fire at one end and a fool at the other.
When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it's called ferocity.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity
When a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity. The distinction between crime and justice is no greater.