"A woman whose face looked as if..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw

“My own education has been entirely controversial: that is why I know what I am writing about; and appear eccentric to dogmatically educated Old School Ties whose heads are stuffed with obsolete shibboleths.”

“I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.”

“Such poverty as we have today in all our great cities degrades the poor, and infects with its degradation the whole neighborhood in which they live. And whatever can degrade a neighborhood can degrade a country and a continent and finally the whole civilized world, which is only a large neighborhood.”

“Your date is better in your pie and your porridge than in your cheek.”

“There are certain shades of limelight that can wreck a girl's complexion.”

“Come, dear, [Gwendolen rises] we have already missed five, if not six, trains. To miss any more might expose us to comment on the platform.”

“There was not one straight floor from the foundation to the roof; the ceilings were so fantastically clouded by smoke and dust, that old women might have told fortunes in them better than in grouts of tea.”

“The wolf is the arch type of ravin, the beast of waste and desolation.”

“Chrysanthemums from gilded argosyUnload their gaudy senseless merchandise.”