Shaw Quotes

I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'

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.

If a farmer calls me to a sick animal, he couldn't care less if I were George Bernard Shaw.

Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants.

We were in all four men with eight animals; for besides the spare horses led by Shaw and myself, an additional mule was driven along with us as a reserve in case of accident.

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.

If Shaw and Einstein couldn't beat death, what chance have I got? Practically none.

At 83 Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's.

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