A quiet, unassuming, intellect.” He may not have been a playwright or poet, like master satirist George Bernard Shaw, but his Shavian credentials are in no doubt. Shaw was most recognised as the ...

Sir, – In response to Frank McNally's characteristically witty reflections on the oddity of adjectives formed from proper names (May 5th), I can help out with the origin of "Shavian" for all ...

Yes, well done you at the back, it is of course “Shavian” (to rhyme with “avian”) although why this should be so is a mystery. It can’t be the result of Occam’s Razor, or indeed any ...

Like Wilde's, Shavian aphorisms speckle our language -- "Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children", "England and America are two countries separated by a common language ...

https://doi.org/10.5325/shaw.40.2.0247 • https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.5325/shaw.40.2.0247 ABSTRACT: This interview with award-winning director and former ...

Now published for the first time, it consists more of literary shavings than true Shavian glitter. Shaw gave his advice off the top of his head, but since there was more top to the G.B.S. head ...

Shaw did not lack distinguished targets for his shafts. Quilled the Shavian St. Bernard: “Mr. Chamberlain is certain to win unless he displays cultural interests and a knowledge of other things ...

Though Morogiello has included genuine quotations from the master, he can write his own epigrams that sound convincingly Shavian, such as "The truth is always terrible." The truth is hardly that ...