Shaw

Famous quotes containing the word shaw:

“With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespear when I measure my mind against his.... But I am bound to add that I pity the man who cannot enjoy Shakespear. He has outlasted thousands of abler thinkers, and will outlast a thousand more.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

“We are a nation of governesses.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)

“There is no subject on which more dangerous nonsense is talked and thought than marriage.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)