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George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), 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 (1902), Pygmalion (1912) and Saint Joan (1923). 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.

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You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?

I never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from people ...

We learn from experience that men never learn anything from experience.

Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times mor ...

My reputation grows with every failure.

“Imagination is the beginning of creation. You imagine what you desire, you will what you imagine ...

If all the economists were laid end to end, they'd never reach a conclusion.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive y ...

Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

Liberty means responsibility. That is why most men dread it.

Parentage is a very important profession, but no test of fitness for it is ever imposed in the inter ...

The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.