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
What is the matter with the poor is poverty; what is the matter with the rich is uselessness.
There are only 2 qualities in the world: efficiency and inefficiency, and only 2 sorts of people: the efficient and the inefficient.
The only service a friend can really render is to keep your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself
We have not lost faith, but we have transferred it from God to the medical profession.
The minority is sometimes right; the majority always wrong.
Caesar was a man of great common sense and good taste, meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
In socialism, private property is anathema, and equal distribution of income the first consideration. In capitalism, private property is cardinal, and distribution left to ensue from the play of free contract and selfish interest on that basis, no matter what anomalies it may present.
The Nazi movement is in many respects one which has my warmest sympathy.
Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
When a thing is funny, search it for a hidden truth.
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he will always declare that it is his duty.