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
All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.
Marriage is tolerable enough in its way if youre easygoing and dont expect too much from it. But it doesnt bear thinking about.
Like fingerprints, all marriages are different.
Get married, but never to a man who is home all day.
What God hath joined together no man shall put asunder: God will take care of that.
Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.
It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.
There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.
Unless the law of marriage were first made human, it could never become divine.
Most married couples spend the whole day apart, the woman in the house, the man in the office or study or workshop.
A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.
It's a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter's husband. The man is at home all day, like a damned soul in hell.
What is any respectable girl brought up to do but to catch some rich man's fancy and get the benefit of his money by marrying him?--as if a marriage ceremony could make any difference in the right or wrong of the thing!
Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.