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
Man is the only animal of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid of.
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
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.
I talk democracy to these men and women. I tell them that they have the vote, and that theirs is the kingdom and the power and the glory. I say to them You are supreme: exercise your power. They say, That's right: tell us what to do; and I tell them. I say Exercise our vote intelligently by voting for me. And they do. That's democracy; and a splendid thing it is too for putting the right men in the right place.
When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.
The Jews generally give value. They make you pay; but they deliver the goods. In my experience the men who want something for nothing are invariably Christians.
The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.
When God created man and woman, he did not take a patent. That's why any imbecile has been able to do so ever since.