George Bernard Shaw Quotes
The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact that a drunken man is happier than a sober one.
Shaw, George Bernard. Androcles and the Lion, Overruled, Pygmalion. Constable and Company, 1916, p. xvii.
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.
