Bernard Shaw Quotes

Bernard Shaw Quotes
Irish comedic dramatist, literary critic, and socialist propagandist George Bernard Shaw (born July 26, 1856, in Dublin, Ireland—died November 2, 1950, in Ayot St. Lawrence, Hertfordshire, England) won the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925.

George Carr Shaw and Lucinda Elizabeth Gurly Shaw had one son, George Bernard Shaw, the third and youngest child. Technically speaking, George Bernard was a member of the Protestant "ascendancy"—the landed Irish gentry—but because of his unpractical father, who was first a sinecured civil servant and then a failed grain merchant, he grew up in a genteel poverty that, to him, was more humiliating than being poor. Shaw was initially mentored by an office worker relative, and he essentially disapproved of the schools he later attended. By the age of 16, Shaw was working in a land agent's office.