Now why is it that when I also deal in the tragi-comic irony of the conflict between real life and the romantic imagination, no critic ever affiliates me to my countryman and immediate forerunner, Charles Lever, whilst they confidently derive me from a Norwegian author of whose language I do not know three words, and of whom I knew nothing until years after the shavian Anschauung was already unequivocally declared in books full of what came, ten years later, to be perfunctorily labelled Ibsenism.
"Bernard Shaw's Preface to Major Barbara"
George Bernard Shaw
An Irishman may like romance, but he will say, to use a frequent shavian phrase, that it is "only romance."
"George Bernard Shaw"
Gilbert K. Chesterton
The Progressive It is now partly possible to justify the shavian method of putting the explanations before the events.
"George Bernard Shaw"
Gilbert K. Chesterton