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
Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the very worst
O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.
Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements in a given society.
The slave of fear: the worst of slaveries
The worst sin... is... to be indifferent.
Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst.
Assassination on the scaffold is the worst form of assassination.
The Englishmen is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.
Worst of all, there is no sign of any relaxation of antisemitism. Logically it has nothing to do with Fascism. But the human raceis imitative rather than logical; and as Fascism spreads antisemitism spreads.
Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.
Islam is the best religion and Muslims are the worst followers
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity
When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work
Vice is waste of life. Poverty, obedience and celibacy are the canonical vices.