“Shaw's plays are the price we pay for Shaw’s prefaces.”
James Agate (1877–1947) British diarist and critic
Ego, p. 276, March 10, 1933.
Similar remarks are also attributed to Winston Churchill, Groucho Marx and to Mark Twain
Disputed
“Shaw's plays are the price we pay for Shaw’s prefaces.”
James Agate (1877–1947) British diarist and critic
Ego, p. 276, March 10, 1933.
Mary Jo Catlett (1938) actress
HER ROLE AS DIRECTOR A LOT OF 'NUNSENSE' https://www.orlandosentinel.com/news/os-xpm-1988-01-31-0010310197-story.html (January 31, 1988)
William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer
In the The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952) Saroyan additionally wrote of Shaw:
He was a gentle, delicate, kind, little man who had established a pose, and then lived it so steadily and effectively that the pose had become real. Like myself, his nature has been obviously a deeply troubled one in the beginning. He had been a man who had seen the futility, meaninglessness and sorrow of life but had permitted himself to thrust aside these feelings and to perform another George Bernard Shaw, which is art and proper.
Hello Out There (1941)
Alan Axelrod (1952) American historian
Alan Axelrod in an interview with Frank R. Shaw, Aug 23, 2007 http://www.electricscotland.com/familytree/frank/axelrod.htm.
J.B. Priestley (1894–1984) English writer
J. B. Priestley, "The War - And After", in Horizon magazine (January 1940), reprinted in War Decade : An Anthology of the 1940s (1989) by Andrew Sinclair
Douglas Adams The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul
Source: The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul (1988), Ch. 3