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
If the wicked flourish and the fittest survive, Nature must be the god of rascals.
Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.
Crime is only the retail department of what, in wholesale, we call penal law.
Assasination on the scaffold is the worst form of assasination, because there it is invested with the approval of society.
The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.
No doubt it is easy to demostrate that property will destroy society unless society destroys it.
I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while.
Nothing is worth doing unless the consequences may be serious.
Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination.
Property, said Proudhon, is theft. This is the only perfect truism that has been uttered on the subject.
When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it's called ferocity.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity
When a man wants to murder a tiger, he calls it sport; when the tiger wants to murder him, he calls it ferocity. The distinction between crime and justice is no greater.
The roulette table pays nobody except him who keeps it. Nevertheless, a passion for gaming is common, though a passion for keeping roulette wheels is unknown.