George Bernard Shaw Quotes
Old men are dangerous; it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world.
George Bernard Shaw, 1856-1950, Irish Nobel Laureate in Literature, Heartbreak House
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She was over 80 when she said this.
There had been a heat wave in Europe that summer during the traditional August French vacation month with the result that there were few physicians, nurses, police, and other professionals in Paris to handle the emergency. Over 10,000 people died of the heat, most of them elderly.
He was a senior military officer in the Jacobin rebellion. He became the last person in Great Britian whon was executed by beheadung, although the law did not abolish it until the 20th century, He was 80 years old at the time of his execution and was quite feeble.
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.
