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
But a lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the very worst
Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born
Life is a disease; and the only difference between one man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives. You are always at the crisis: I am always in the convalescent stage.
Life is a disease; and the only difference between one another is the stage of the disease at which he lives
The great advantage of a hotel is that it's a great refuge from home life
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
I write plays because I like it and because I cannot remember any period in my life when I could have been inventing people and scenes. I am not primarily a story teller : things occur to me first as seems with action and dialogue as moments, develop
Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo
Dancing is a very crude attempt to get into the rhythm of life.
Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.
Leisure may be defined as free activity, labor as compulsory activity. Leisure does what it likes, labor does what it must, the compulsion being that of Nature, which in these latitudes leaves men no choice between labor and starvation.
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.