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
The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.
I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.
From Mozart I learnt to say important things in a conversational way.
Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.
It's prudent to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. But don't forget that your soul sticks to you if you stick to it; but the world has a way of slipping through your fingers.
A love affair should always be a honeymoon. And the only way to make sure of that is to keep changing the man; for the same man can never keep it up.
The surest way to ruin a man who doesn't know how to handle money is to give him some.
We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.
It is one of the mysterious ways of Allah to make women troublesome when he makes them beautiful.
The best way to get your point across is to entertain.
Get out of my way; for I won't stop for you.
The way to deal with worldly people is to frighten them by repeating their scandalous whisperings aloud.
If there was twenty ways of telling the truth and only one way of telling a lie, the Government would find it out. It's in the nature of governments to tell lies.
Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.