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
Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.
The notion that inspiration is something that happened thousands of years ago, and was then finished and done with. . . the theory that God retired from business at that period and has not been heard from since, is as silly as it is blasphemous.
If I bind the future I bind my will. If I bind my will I strangle creation.
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out.
The price of ability does not depend on merit but on supply and demand.
No Englishman is ever fairly beaten
Marry Ann; and at the end of a week you'll find no more inspiration in her than in a plate of muffins.
You see things and you say, 'Why?'. But I dream things and I say, 'Why not?'.
If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.
The play was a great success, but audience was a dismal failure.
You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
The frontier between hell and heaven is only the difference between two ways of looking at things.
If you can't get rid of the skeleton in your closet, you'd best teach it to dance.