George Bernard Shaw ( 10 of 199 )
Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill
one another if it is not read more
Nothing is ever done in this world until men are prepared to kill
one another if it is not done.
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. •George Bernard Shaw It is better to read more
I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation. •George Bernard Shaw It is better to be quotable than to be honest. •Tom Stoppard Now we sit through Shakespeare in order to recognize the quotations. •Orson Welles Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation.
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who read more
Marriage is an alliance entered into by a man who can't sleep with the window shut, and a woman who can't sleep with the window open.
Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways
of Providence with drunken skippers is to run read more
Every drunken skipper trusts to Providence. But one of the ways
of Providence with drunken skippers is to run them on the rocks.
Old men are dangerous it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world
Old men are dangerous it doesn't matter to them what is going to happen to the world
If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat.
If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat.
When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did read more
When I was young I observed that nine out of every ten things I did were failures, so I did ten times more work.
We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything
that is real about us; ashamed of read more
We live in an atmosphere of shame. We are ashamed of everything
that is real about us; ashamed of ourselves, of our relatives, of
our incomes, of our accents, of our opinion, of our experience,
just as we are ashamed of our naked skins.
A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot,
his mother drudge for his living at read more
A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot,
his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at
anything but his art.
What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part read more
What is both surprising and delightful is that spectators are allowed, and even expected, to join in the vocal part of the game... There is no reason why the field should not try to put the batsman off his stroke at the critical moment by neatly timed disparagements of his wife's fidelity and his mother's respectability.
