George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw was born on July 26, 1856 in Dublin, Ireland. He was a prominent playwright and had also co-founded London School of Economics. His father was George Carr Shaw and Lucinda Elizabeth Shaw. He studied at various schools and completed his formal school education at Dublin English Scientific and Commercial Day School. He hated schools and teachers labeling them as a prison and chaperones respectively. After his mother left home following her voice teacher to London he worked Read More...
Youth is wasted on the young.- George Bernard Shaw
Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
You'll never have a quiet world till you knock the patriotism out of the human race.
You use a glass mirror to see your face; you use works of art to see your soul.
You see things; and you say "Why?" But I dream things that never were; and I say "Why not?"
You cannot be a hero without being a coward.
You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.
You are going to let the fear of poverty govern you life and your reward will be that you will eat, but you will not live.
Without art, the crudeness of reality would make the world unbearable.
Why, except as a means of livelihood, a man should desire to act on the stage when he has the whole world to act in, is not clear to me.
Why should we take advice on sex from the pope? If he knows anything about it, he shouldn't!
Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
When a stupid man is doing something he is ashamed of, he always declares that it is his duty.
When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport; when a tiger wants to murder him he calls it ferocity.
