Anecdotes Quote by Gene Lees

Like Rousseau, whom he resembles even more than he resembles Voltaire, Shaw never gave a social form to his assertiveness, never desired to arrive…

— Jacques Barzun

“He shows much more of Himself to some people than to others-not because He has favourites, but because it is impossible for Him to…

— C.S. Lewis

“A person who actually has a high self-worth is able to look at the negative parts of his character frankly—”

— Mark Manson

“He often acted out of impulse just so that he could then devote his leisure hours to mulling why; he relished self-analysis, though he…

— Eleanor Catton

Everyone has the obligation to ponder well his own specific traits of character. He must also regulate them adequately and not wonder whether someone…

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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

— Max Beerbohm

There is a certain kind of person who is so dominated by the desire to be loved for himself alone that he has constantly…

— Anonymous

“So, he who displays himself does not shine; he who asserts his own views is not distinguished; he who vaunts himself does not find…

— Lao Tzu

“He was very much a man of moods, possibly owing to what is styled the artistic temperament. I have never seen, myself, why the…

— Agatha Christie

“He accepted the deformity which had made life so hard for him; he knew that it had warped his character, but no he saw…

— W. Somerset Maughamset Maugham

His contempt for humanity grew fiercer, and at last he came to realize that the world is made up mostly of fools and scoundrels.…

— Joris-Karl Huysmans

“As the late afternoon sun shone in Shaw's face and a soft flower-scented wind cooled him, his unhappiness turned to a detachment that was…

— Gore Vidal