A Quote by Gilbert K. Chesterton

Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

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Bernard Bernard Shaw Greek His Jokes Made Only Plato Unfortunately

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Gilbert K. Chesterton
English - Writer
May 29, 1874 - June 14, 1936

While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: "To ----, with esteem, George Bernard Shaw." He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: "With renewed esteem, George Bernard Shaw.

George Bernard Shaw

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

Oscar Wilde

Bernard Shaw remains the only model we have of what the citizen of a democracy should be: an informed participant in all things we deem important to the society and the individual.

Jacques Barzun

I don't believe in morality . I'm a disciple of Bernard Shaw.

George Bernard Shaw

I must say Bernard Shaw is greatly improved by music.

T. S. Eliot

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

Christina Stead

Unless you are a Bernard Shaw you find a preface a most embarrassing business.

Stacy Aumonier

We depend on the critics to give us a glimpse of what happened. Bernard Shaw championed Ibsen, who got the most terrible notices for his plays. Kenneth Tynan championed young writers, and as a result, the theatre has changed radically.

Diana Rigg

If a farmer calls me to a sick animal, he couldn't care less if I were George Bernard Shaw.

James Herriot

There is nothing that has caused me to meditate more on Plato's secrecy and sphinx-like nature, than the happily preserved petit fait that under the pillow of his death-bed there was found no 'Bible,' nor anything Egyptian, Pythagorean, or Platonic - but a book of Aristophanes. How could even Plato have endured life - a Greek life which he repudiated - without an Aristophanes!

Friedrich Nietzsche

P.G. Wodehouse was a huge influence on me when I was younger, as were Edgar Rice Burroughs and George Bernard Shaw.

Michael Moorcock

Nobody can read Freud without realizing that he was the scientific equivalent of another nuisance, George Bernard Shaw.

Robert M. Hutchins

I made use of the college library by borrowing books other than scientific books, such as all of the plays by George Bernard Shaw, the writing of Edgar Allan Poe. The college library helped me to develop a broader aspect on life.