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
Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?
If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.
If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals.
If you injure your neighbour, better not do it by halves.
What's the use of money if you have to earn it.
If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.
Even if animal experimentation was proved to be of value, it would be morally wrong.
If you cannot have what you believe in you must believe in what you have.
If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.
If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.
If you can’t appreciate what you’ve got, you’d better get what you can appreciate.
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.