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
People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got: everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them
Science is always simple and profound. It is only half truths that are dangerous.
Truth telling is not compatible with the defence of the realm.
Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.
The trouble with the media is that it seems unable to distinguish between the end of the world and a bicycle accident.
The truth is the one thing that nobody will believe.
The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.
The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.
The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
My way of joking is to tell the truth
Telling the truth is the funniest joke in the world.
When you find something funny search it for hidden truth.
The buried truth germinates and breaks through to the light.
I am afraid we must make the world honest before we can honestly say to our children that honesty is the best policy.