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1856–1950 Ireland
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist with a range incorporating both contemporary satire and historical allegory. He wrote more than sixty plays, including such works as Man and Superman (1902), Pygmalion (1913) and Saint Joan (1923).
Ireland Academics Nobel laureates Novelists Playwrights Also known as: Bernard Shaw, G. B. Shaw, G.B. Shaw, George bernhard shaw, Shaw, Shaw, George Bernard
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It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.
This is the real enemy, the invader from the East, the Druze, the ruffian, the oriental parasite; in a word: the Jew.
You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanishness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.
Women, for the sake of their children and parents, submit to slaveries and prostitutions that no unattached woman would endure.
Androcles and the Lion (1912)
The Nazi movement is in many respects one which has my warmest sympathy.
When an apparent miracle happened.it proved divine mission to the credulous, and proved a contract with the devil to the skeptical.
Baseball has the great advantage over cricket of being sooner ended.
The reformer for whom the world is not good enough finds himself shoulder to shoulder with him that is not good enough for the world.
Maxims for Revolutionists (1903)
I have defined the 100 per cent American as 99 per cent an idiot.
The secret of success is to offend the greatest number of people.
Days with Bernard Shaw (1949)
There are no secrets except the secrets that keep themselves.
The secret of forgiving everything is to understand nothing.
Getting Married (1908)
Reminiscences make one feel so deliciously aged and sad.
If Despotism failed only for want of a capable benevolent despot, what chance has Democracy, which requires a whole population of capable voters?
Man and Superman (1903)
A soldier is an anachronism of which we must get rid.
Home is the girl’s prison and the woman’s workhouse.
Man and Superman (1903)
The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.
Quintessence Of Ibsenism (1891)
The quality of a play is the quality of its ideas.
Vitality in a woman is a blind fury of creation.
Man and Superman (1903)
Woman reduces us all to the common denominator.
Great Catherine: Whom Glory Still Adores (1913)
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