A Quote by T. S. Eliot

I must say Bernard Shaw is greatly improved by music.

T. S. Eliot

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Bernard Bernard Shaw Greatly Improved Music Must Say

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T. S. Eliot
American - Poet
September 26, 1888 - January 4, 1965

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

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

George Bernard Shaw

George Bernard Shaw said that thinking was the greatest of all human endeavors, but I would say that feeling was. Allowing yourself to feel things, to feel love or wrath, hatred, rage.

Marlon Brando

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

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

Gilbert K. Chesterton

To be a colored man in America ... and enjoy it, you must be greatly daring, greatly stolid, greatly humorous and greatly sensitive. And at all times a philosopher.

Jessie Redmon Fauset

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

James Herriot

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

Oscar Wilde

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

As George Bernard Shaw observed: "All great truths begin as blasphemies." Yet I have to say, the idea that there is intelligent life elsewhere in the cosmos does not seem terribly radical to me, nor does the notion that we could be receiving help from outside of our dimension.