The dramatic critic who is without prejudice is on the plane with the general who does not believe in taking human life.

A ready way to lose your friend is to lend him money. Another equally ready way to lose him is to refuse to lend him money. It is six of one and a half dozen of the other.

There is something distinguished about even his failures; they sink not trivially, but with a certain air of majesty, like a great ship, its flags flying, full of holes.

Shaw writes plays for the ages, the ages between five and twelve.

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

Impersonal criticism?is like an impersonal fist fight or an impersonal marriage, and as successful.

All one has to do to gather a large crowd in New York is to stand on the curb a few minutes and gaze intently at the sky.