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
It is only natural that a man should have established friendly relationship with the wives of his friends, but if he is wise he quits all ideas of sex out of the question.
If you say that God is good, great, blessed, wise or any such thing, the starting point is this : God is.
It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid.
Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major.
It is doubtless wise, when a reform is introduced, to try to persuade the British public that it is not a reform at all; but appearances must be kept up to some extent at least.
We are made wise not by the recollection of our past, but by the responsibility for our future.
What is wrong with priests and popes is that instead of being apostles and saints, they are nothing but empirics who say I know instead of I am learning, and pray for credulity and inertia as wise men pray for skepticism and activity.
Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long.
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth.
Every child has a right to its own bent. . . . It has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether that way seems wise or foolish to others, exactly as an adult has. It has a right to privacy as to its own doings and its own affairs as much as if it were its own father.
My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it's called ferocity.