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
If I own a large part of Scotland, I can turn the people off the land practically into the sea or across the sea. I can take women in child-bearing and throw them into the snow and leave them there. That has been done. I can do it for no better reason than I think it is better to shoot deer on the land than allow people to live on it.
The fickleness of the women whom I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me
The fickleness of the women I love is only equaled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
Changeable women are more enduring than monotonous ones. They are sometimes murdered but seldom deserted.
If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.
He who desires a lifetime of happiness with a beautiful woman desires to enjoy the taste of wine by keeping his mouth always full of it.
The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men.
Vitality is a woman is a blind fury of creation.
A man has no business to marry a woman who can't make him miserable. It means she can't make him happy.
The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.
Female murderers get sheaves of offers of marriage.
I learned more from the first stupid woman who fell in love with me than ever my brains taught me.
Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted.
You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.