George Bernard Shaw

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1. 1856 age 0

   Born

2. 1938 age 82

   CreditPygmalionscreenwriter

3. 1945 age 89

   CreditCaesar and Cleopatrascreenwriter

4. 1950 age 94

   Died

5. 1957 age 94

   CreditSaint Joanscreenwriter

6. 1964 age 94

   CreditMy Fair Ladyscreenwriter

• SHStanley Holloway2 titles
• MMMoyna Macgill2 titles
• HSHarry Stradling2 titles
• FAFelix Aylmer2 titles
• CNCathleen Nesbitt2 titles
• EPEsme Percy2 titles
• GPGabriel Pascal2 titles
• DHDavid Hemmings1 title
• CRClaude Rains1 title
• GCGeorge Cukor1 title

• Influenced by

  • RWRichard Wagner
  • CDCharles Dickens

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• The old Whigs and new Tories of the school of Cobden and Bright, the "Philosophic Radicals," the economists of whom Bastiat is the type, Lord Wemyss and Lord Bramwell, Mr. Herbert Spencer and Mr. Auberon Herbert, Mr. Gladstone, Mr. Arthur Balfour, Mr. John Morley, Mr. Leonard Courtney: any of these is, in England, a more typical Anarchist than Bakounin. They distrust State action, and are jealous advocates of the prerogative of the individual, proposing to restrict the one and to extend the other as far as is humanly possible, in opposition to the Social-Democrat, who proposes to democratize the State and throw upon it the whole work of organizing the national industry, thereby making it the most vital organ in the social body.

  George Bernard Shaw, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it...

  George Bernard Shaw, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it...

  George Bernard Shaw, CC BY-SA 4.0

• No public man in these islands ever believes that the Bible means what it says: he is always convinced that it says what he means; and I have no reason to hope that Mr Coote may be an exception to the rule.

  George Bernard Shaw, CC BY-SA 4.0

• My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.

  George Bernard Shaw, CC BY-SA 4.0

• Die Walküre is endured by the average man because it contains four scenes for which he would sit out a Scotch sermon, or even a House of Commons debate. These are the love duet in the first act, Brunnhilde's announcement of death in the second, the ride of the Valkyries and the 'fire-charm' in the third. For them the ordinary playgoer endures hours of Wotan, with Christopher Sly's prayer in his heart. 'Would 'twere over!' Now, I am one of those elect souls who are deeply moved by Wotan. I grant you that as a long-winded, one-eyed gentleman backing a certain champion in a fight and henpecked out of his fancy because his wife objects to the moral character of the champion, he is a dreary person indeed . . . but to one who has understood all its beauties, its lofty aspirations, its tragedy, there is nothing trivial, nothing tedious in Die Walküre.

  George Bernard Shaw, CC BY-SA 4.0