Immortal Quote by Max Beerbohm

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

Seeing clearly within himself and always able to dodge around the ends of any position, including his own, Shaw assumed from the start the…

— Jacques Barzun

I hate Bernard Shaw because he says that life is compromise.

— Christina Stead

As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.

— Oscar Wilde

Shaw's works make me admire the magnificent tolerance and broadmindedness of the english.

— James Joyce

Shaw does not merely decorate a proposition, but makes his way from point to point through new and difficult territory. This explains why Shaw…

— Jacques Barzun

Concerning no subject would [George Bernard] Shaw be deterred by the minor accident of total ignorance from penning a definitive opinion.

— Roger Scruton

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

“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

A great writer is nothing less than a martyr who does not die.

— Honore de Balzac

Erik Erikson has commented: Potentially creative men like (Bernard) Shaw build the personal fundament of their work during a self-decreed moratorium, during which they…

— Lewis Hyde

“The young man, who does not know the future, sees life as a kind of epic adventure, an Odyssey through strange seas and unknown…

— John Williams