George Bernard Shaw Quotes
When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
Most of the great political leaders also have many failures, especially in the policy realm. For example, while most Americans remember that FDR’s policies led to our emergence from the Great Depression, many of his programs, did not work, others were declared unconstitutional and necer really tried, and still others were not significant in what they accomplished.
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.
