SHAW, GEORGE BERNARD

1. If [Bernard] Shaw had died like Keats at twenty-six, he would never have been heard of.—FRANK HARRIS, Bernard Shaw
   

2. Voltaire called Swift a Rabelais perfectionne; I call you a Voltaire perfected.—ARCHIBALD HENDERSON, to Bernard Shaw
   

3. It is perhaps no exaggeration to claim for Shaw that he has achieved a greater measure of fame during his own life time than has fallen to the lot of any playwright known to history. Bernard Shaw is a public institution, a popular one-man university, a twentieth century Bacon in broadcast.—ARCHIBALD HENDERSON, Bernard Shaw
   

4. The current popularity of Shaw is thus due, in considerable part, to the amusing antics of an ageless Punch controlled from behind the scenes by the hand of a genius—a serious thinker and moralist who chooses to put on his pantomimes to attract the unthinking multitude without their knowledge to the serious plays for which they serve as curtain-raisers.—ARCHIBALD HENDERSON,
   Bernard Shaw
   

5. The fame of Bernard Shaw is in no small part the false notoriety of G.B.S.—the publicized vogue of a creature too fantastic to be other than an ingenious work of art.—ARCHIBALD HENDERSON, Bernard Shaw
   

6. [G.B.] Shaw is world pervasive, vocally transmissible with the speed of light, journalistically omnipresent.—ARCHIBALD HENDERSON, Bernard Shaw
   

7. Like the late poet, Paul Verlaine, there are days when Shaw wears his demon mask to frighten bores away.—J. G. HUNEKER
   

8. I never struggled. I rose by sheer gravitation.—BERNARD SHAW
   

9. My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.—BERNARD SHAW, Answers to Nine Questions