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
Money is indeed the most important thing in the world; and all sound and successful personal and national morality should have this fact for its basis.
We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great many people whom we at present kill. We should have to get rid of all ideas about capital punishment ...
I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit
The world is populated in the main by people who should not exist
The ideal love affair should be conducted by post.
We should have had socialism already, but for the socialists.
A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.
In Ireland they try to make a cat cleanly by rubbing its nose in its own filth. Mr. Joyce has tried the same treatment on the human subject. I hope it may prove successful.
I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads and keep them in bowls of water around the house.
The best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
The seven deadly sins... food, clothing, firing, rent, taxes,respectability and children. Nothing can lift those seven millstones from man's neck but money; and the spirit cannot soar until the millstones are lifted.
The nations morals are like its teeth, the more decayed they are the more it hurts to touch them.
The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me
The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.