Quotes about George Bernard Shaw

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On George Bernard Shaw An excellent man: he has no enemies, and none of his friends like him.

George Bernard Shaw writes like a Pakistani who has learned English when he was twelve years old in order to become an accountant.

On George Bernard Shaw being a vegetarian:

You are a terrible man, Mr Shaw. One day you'll eat a beefsteak and then God help all women.

Mrs Patrick Campbell

Now, having a play on the same bill with a play by the one and only, the good and great, the impish and noble, the man and superman, George Bernard Shaw, is for me an honor, and I think a most fitting thing.

William Saroyan

I have read books about the behavior of mobs — The Mob by Le Bon, if I remember rightly, was one — about the crime in children, and the genius in them, about the greatest bodies of things, and about the littlest of them. I have been fascinated by it all, grateful for it all, grateful for the sheer majesty of the existence of ideas, stories, fables, and paper and ink and print and books to hold them all together for a man to take aside and examine alone. But the man I liked most and the man who seemed to remind me of myself — of what I really was and would surely become — was George Bernard Shaw.

William Saroyan

As I once said of George Bernard Shaw, he bloomed at twenty, but nobody smelled him till he was forty.

Robertson Davies

Language education... may achieve what George Bernard Shaw asserted is the function of art.

When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to George Bernard Shaw.

Of George Bernard Shaw being vegetarian:

If you give him meat no woman in London will be safe.

Mrs Patrick Campbell

It seems that Locke had in mind rival goods when he developed his theory (if one consumes it, others can't). What happens to non-rival goods like ideas? George Bernard Shaw famously said that if you and I have an apple and we exchange apples, you would only have one apple but if you and I have an idea and we exchanged them, we will have two ideas. So, how is it possible to treat ideas as if they were apples i. e. to make them into commodities? It is only through copyright that it is possible to produce scarcity out of ideas and this of course can produce serious benefits for some but not all

To say that basic science is exciting may sound like a contradiction... But I would remind you that there are two intellectual excitements that are not tame at all and that we remember all our lives. One is the thrill of following out a chain of reasoning for yourself; the other is the pleasure of watching several strongly individualistic personalities argue about their deepest convictions. That is to say, the thrill of a detective story and the pleasure of watching a play by George Bernard Shaw.