Admire Quote by James Joyce

“wish to deal with my most distinguished contemporaries, not personally or in a merely literary manner, but in relation to the real body of…

— G.K. Chesterton

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

— Vivien Leigh

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

— John Osborne

“No man ought to write at all, or even to speak at all, unless he thinks that he is in truth and the other…

— G.K. Chesterton

“In actual fact, however, the revolt of Ibsen and Shaw against the conventional nineteenth century drama could very well be described as a return…

— W.H. Auden

“You'll want to read books - novels, because ladies are frivolous; poetry because ladies are sentimental; and sermons, because we are pious. If you…

— Donald McCaig

“in their times; we need to see more clearly than we do that the spirit of the age in which he grew to manhood…

— William Oddie

“There are many actors alone who haven't acted Pirandello or Shaw or Shakespeare for years because their plays are too aware of the world.…

— Ray Bradbury

“When I visited George Bernard Shaw , in 1948, at his home in Aylot, a suburb of London, he was extremely anxious for me…

— Joseph Lewis

At present, the novels which we owe to English ladies form no small part of the literary glory of our country. No class of…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

Brilliant. [Lasdun] seems to me certainly among the most gifted, vivid, and deft poets now writing in English, and far better than many who…

— Anthony Hecht

“George Bernard Shaw was on to something years ago when one of his maxims for revolutionaries stated, “The reasonable man adapts himself to the…

— Michael Bungay Stanier