As a teacher, as a propagandist, Shaw is no good at all, even in his own generation. But as a personality, he is immortal.

The most perfect caricature is that which, on a small surface, with the simplest means, most accurately exaggerates, to the highest point, the peculiarities of…

The past is a work of art, free of irrelevancies and loose ends.

I was a modest, good-humoured boy. It is Oxford that has made me insufferable.

A teacher's major contribution may pop out anonymously in the life of some ex-student's grandchild. A teacher, finally, has nothing to go on but faith, a stude…

A teacher affects eternity; he can never tell where his influence stops.

I have been uncompromising, peppery, intractable, monomaniacal, tactless, volatile, and ofttimes disagreeable... I suppose I'm larger than life.