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
To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he will always declare that it is his duty.
What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.
The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.
It is not that I am so clever; it is that everyone else is so stupid.
In a stupid nation the man of genius becomes a god : everybody worships him and nobody does his will.
I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.
I have defined the hundred per cent American as ninety-nine per cent an idiot.
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
It's not that I'm so clever, it is that others are so stupid.
Christianity might be a good thing if anyone ever tried it.
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
[Chess] is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time.
When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it's called ferocity.