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 slave of fear: the worst of slaveries
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them: that's the essence of inhumanity
Revolutionary movements attract the best and worst elements in a given society.
O Lord! I don't know which is the worst of the country, the walking or the sitting at home with nothing to do.
Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the very worst
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
When a man wants to murder a tiger, it's called sport; when the tiger wants to murder him it's called ferocity.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport: when the tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity