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
Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born
It's a funny thing about that bust. As time goes on it seems to get younger and younger.
The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew every time he sees me, while all the rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them
The only man who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew every time he sees me, while all the rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them
The only man who behaved sensibly was my tailor; he took my measurement anew every time he saw me, while all the rest went on with their old measurements and expected them to fit me.
The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.
Chess is a foolish expedient for making idle people believe they are doing something very clever, when they are only wasting their time
Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.
We are the masters at the moment, and not only at the moment, but for a very long time to come.
Every man over forty is a scoundrel.
Everything happens to everybody sooner or later if there is time enough.
Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.