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
First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity: no really self-respecting woman would take advantage of it.
Do not love your neighbour as yourself. If you are on good terms with yourself it is an impertinence; if on bad, an injury.
Oh, the tiger will love you. There is no sincerer love than the love of food.
There is no love sincerer than the love of food.
The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me
The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.
When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.
Who are those we love? Only those we do not hate.
Woman's happiness begins with her first love and ends about then
If you begin by sacrificing yourself to those you love, you will end by hating those to whom you have sacrificed yourself.
Love is an appetite which, like all other appetites, is destroyed for the moment by its gratification.
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
My heart, my heart, be whole and free: Love is thine only enemy.