George Bernard Shaw
Irish playwright, essayist, and critic
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
Remember that you are a human being with a soul and the divine gift of articulate speech: that your native language is the language of Shakespeare and Milton and The Bible; and don't sit there crooning like a bilious pigeon.
—George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, essayist, and critic, Pygmalion, 1916
Posted on July 27, 2000 at 6:32 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud; and the world overhears them. But it's horribly lonely not to hear someone else talk sometimes.
—George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, essayist, and critic, Candida
Posted on November 7, 2002 at 8:50 AM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.
—George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, essayist, and critic, Liza Doolittle, in Pygmalion, 1916
Posted on July 23, 2002 at 1:00 PM
WORDS ABOUT WORDS
In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language: the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.
—George Bernard Shaw, Irish playwright, essayist, and critic
Posted on July 17, 2003 at 11:30 AM
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