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
Morality is suspecting other people of not being legally married.
Morality consists in suspecting other people of not being legally married
The nations morals are like its teeth, the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.
Morality is not respectability.
I don't believe in morality . I'm a disciple of Bernard Shaw.
It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman.
Morality consists of suspecting other people of not being legally married.
Decency cannot be discussed without indecency!
War does not decide who is right but who is left.
The word morality, if we met it in the Bible, would surprise us as much as the word telephone or motor car.
An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only uncomfortable.
It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.
Bourgeois morality is largely a system of making cheap virtues a cloak for expensive vices.
I claim to be a conscientiously immoral writer.