It distresses me, this failure to keep pace with the leaders of thought, as they pass into oblivion.
To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be.
No Roman ever was able to say, 'I dined last night with the Borgias'.
I may be old fashioned, but I am right.
A quiet city is a contradiction in terms. It is a thing uncanny, spectral.
As a teacher, as a propagandist, Mr. Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.