George Bernard Shaw Quotes
A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.
Shaw, George Bernard. Plays: Pleasant and Unpleasant. Vol. 1, Grant Richards, 1898, p. 121.
He was fascinated by the effect of American freedom on the way Americans led their personal lives. In Europe, a man’s occupation was tht of his father and rarely, if ever, changed. He lived in the same community for most of his life and often in the same house. The laws and possibilities of America allowed great exploration and risk taking if individuals explored possibilities.
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. 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.
