Great men are but life-sized. Most of them, indeed, are rather short.

The dullard's envy of brilliant men is always assuaged by the suspicion that they will come to bad end

You will think me lamentably crude: my experience of life has been drawn from life itself

To mankind in general Macbeth and Lady Macbeth stand out as the supreme type of all that a host and hostess should not be

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.

I know of no man of genius who had not to pay, in some affliction or defect either physical or spiritual, for what the gods had given him.