George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw, known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from the 1880s to his death and beyond.

George Bernard Shaw is famous for his role in revolutionizing comedic drama. He was also a literary critic and a prominent British socialist. Shaw's most financially successful work, Pygmalion, was adapted into the popular Broadway musical My Fair Lady. He won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925.

Great Thoughts of George Bernard Shaw

"People are always blaming circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and , if they can't find them, make them."

"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man."

"A lifetime of happiness! No man alive could bear it: it would be hell on earth."

"Beware of false knowledge; it is mor dangerous than ignorance."

"I learned long ago never to wrestle with a pig. you get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it."

"We don't stop plying because we grow old; we grow old because we stop playing."

"He knows nothing; and he thinks he knows everything. that points clearly to a political career."

"Patriotism is your conviction that this country is superior to all others because you were born in it."

"All the love in the world is longing to speak; only it dare not, because it is shy, shy, shy. That is the world's tragedy."

"It is dangerous to be sincere unless you are also stupid."

"There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it."

"Yesterday is the past, tomorrow it the future, today is a gift- that's why it's called the present."

"Old men are dangerous: it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world."

"The longer I live, the more convinced am I that this planets is used by other planets as a lunatic asylum."

"The most tragic thing int the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor."