“A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.”

— George Bernard Shaw · Wisdom quote

A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it. — George Bernard Shaw quote card
Playwright · 1856 – 1950

Irish playwright and critic; author of Pygmalion; Nobel Prize in Literature 1925.

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