Rich men or aristocrats with a developed sense of life -- men like Ruskin and William Morris and Kropotkin -- have enormous social appetites and very fastidious personal ones. They are not content with handsome houses: they want handsome cities. They are not content with bediamonded wives and blooming daughters: they complain because the charwoman is badly dressed, because the laundress smells of gin, because the sempstress is anemic, because every man they meet is not a friend and every woman not a romance. They turn up their noses at their neighbors' drains, and are made ill by the architecture of their neighbors' houses.
Major Barbara: with an essay as first aid to critics - página 17, Bernard Shaw - Brentano's, 1913 - 159 páginas
