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
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years, and justify our experience...on pain of liquidation.
If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad.
I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot.
If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad.
The most intolerable pain is produced by prolonging the keenest pleasure.
It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.
If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.
Dying is a troublesome business: there is pain to be suffered, and it wrings one's heart; but death is a splendid thing -a warfare accomplished, a beginning all over again, a triumph. You can always see that in their faces.
Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.
Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.
To endure the pain of living, we all drug ourselves more or less with gin, with literature, with superstitions, with romance, with idealism, political, sentimental, and moral, with every possible preparation of that universal hashish: imagination.
The longer I live, the more I realize that I am never wrong about anything, and that all the pains I have so humbly taken to verify my notions have only wasted my time!
I have very carefully studied Islam and the life of its Prophet (PBUH). I have done so both as a student of history and as a critic. And I have come to conclusion that Muhammad (PBUH) was indeed a great man and a deliverer and benefactor of mankind which was till then writhing under the most agonising Pain.
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.