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
A life spent making mistakes is not only more honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing.
Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.
Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out.
The criminal law is no use to decent people.
Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use.
What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?.
Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.
What, or who, led you to take up photography, and about what date ? George Bernard Shaw – I always wanted to draw and paint. I had no literary ambition. I aspired to be a Michelangelo, not a Shakespeare. But I could not draw well enough to satisfy myself; and the instruction I could get was worse than useless. So when dry plates and push buttons came into the market I bought a box camera and began pushing the button. It was in 1898.
What's the use of money if you have to earn it.
No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else.
The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planet is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum.
You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.
Women are called womanly only when they regard themselves as existing solely for the use of men.
Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used.