Quotes About Shaw

Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated.

Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.

If 'Pygmalion' is not good enough for your friends with its own verbal music, their talent must be altogether extraordinary.

As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.

I've had to have some of my dress clothes tailored.

I agree about Shaw -- he is haunted by the mystery he flouts. He is an atheist who trembles in the haunted corridor.

Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

I drifted into acting. My grandfather had a house in Buffalo in which there was a stage, and his friends met every two weeks or so to put on plays. So it was natural for me to put on plays, too, when I went to boarding school. I put on everything in the drama - I was indiscriminate. I put on Yeats and Shaw and Lady Gregory.

We have compromised so admirably with the question of their divinity that I should hate to see them replaced by a dictator or a Workers' Council and a firing squad." I had to protest at this preposterous view, but he was quite serious. "I assure you that this is the way the left-wing tends; its object is civil war, though it does not realize it — thanks to the cunning with which the sapless puritans like Shaw and company have presented their case.

[I] browsed far outside science in my reading and attended public lectures - Bertrand Russell, H. G. Wells, Huxley, and Shaw being my favorite speakers.

Shaw's plays are the price we pay for Shaw's prefaces.

I find it incredibly tedious, hate that it murders itself with its own conservative pomposity.

One time G.K. Chesterton, the rolypologist, was patted on the stomach by his adversary, George Bernard Shaw, a beanpole of an infidel, and was asked what they were going to name the baby. Chesterton replied immediately that if it was a boy, John, if a girl, then Mary. But if it turned out to only be gas, they were going to name it George Bernard Shaw.

Readers have the power that professors pretend they wield. Millions of words of professorial contempt have failed to kill Kipling. Praising Shaw to the skies has been vain.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

Hell is full of musical amateurs.

Professor Henry Higgins: She's an owl, sickened by a few days of *my* sunshine.

Wilde's permanent celebrity belongs to literature, and only his transient notoriety to police news.

Our language is the language of Shakespeare, Thompson and Milton, as we sit and croon like bilious pigeons.

The road to ignorance is paved with good editors.

You scandalous woman, will you throw away even your hypocrisy?

Boasting about modesty is typical of the English.

I went ahead and read all of George Bernard Shaw's plays for my own pleasure, because I liked the cut of his beard.