As a teacher, as a propagandist, Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.
The most perfect caricature is that which, on a small surface, with the simplest means, most accurately exaggerates, to the highest point, the peculiarities of a human being, at his most characteristic moment in the most beautiful manner.
I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.
To give an accurate and exhaustive account of that period would need a far less brilliant pen than mine.
Most women are not so young as they are painted.
The Nonconformist Conscience makes cowards of us all.