“Home life as we understand it is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo.”

— George Bernard Shaw, Getting Married, Preface (1908)

About George Bernard Shaw

1856 – 1950

Irish playwright and critic, Nobel laureate in Literature (1925).

“If you teach a man anything he will never learn it.”

“Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.”

“You use a glass mirror to see your face: you use works of art to see your soul.”

“Fathers should be neither seen nor heard. That is the only proper basis for family life.”

“Not an orphan in the wide world can be so deserted as the child who is an outcast from a living parent's love.”

“Men deal with life as children with their play, / Who first misuse, then cast their toys away.”

“Fiction is to the grown man what play is to the child; it is there that he changes the atmosphere and tenor of his life.”

“You can live without a father who accepts you, but you cannot live without a world that makes some sense to you.”

“Children live on one side of despair, the awakened on the other side.”