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
Well, dearie, men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. But you can't blame them for that, can you?
We need men who can dream of things that never were, and ask why not.
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.
Old men are dangerous it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world
Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid of.
If I were a woman, I'd simply refuse to speak to any man or do anything for men until I'd got the vote.
Some men see things as they are and say, ''Why?'' I of dream things that never were, and say, ''Why not?''
Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.
A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
Rich men without convictions are more dangerous in modern society than poor women without chastity.
All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.
What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.
Man is the only animal which esteems itself rich in proportion to the number and voracity of its parasites.
Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.