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H. W. Shaw Quotes: "There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst."

There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.



H. W. Shaw Quotes: "It is most unwise for people in love to marry."

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.




H. W. Shaw Quotes: "I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else."

I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.



H. W. Shaw Quotes: "I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul."

I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.




H. W. Shaw Quotes: "Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me."

Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me.



H. W. Shaw Quotes: "No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus."

No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus.



H. W. Shaw Quotes: "The love of economy is the root of all virtue."

The love of economy is the root of all virtue.




H. W. Shaw Quotes: "The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed."

The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.



H. W. Shaw Quotes: "Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men."

Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men.



H. W. Shaw Quotes: "Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them."

Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.



H. W. Shaw Quotes: "Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world."

Taxes are the chief business of a conqueror of the world.



H. W. Shaw Quotes: "My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same."

My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.




H. W. Shaw Quotes: "Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal."

Science becomes dangerous only when it imagines that it has reached its goal.



H. W. Shaw Quotes: "Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him."

Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.



H. W. Shaw Quotes: "The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth."

The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.



H. W. Shaw Quotes: "A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage."

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.



H. W. Shaw Quotes: "Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste."

Where there is no religion, hypocrisy becomes good taste.



H. W. Shaw Quotes: "What is the matter with the rich is Uselessness."

What is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.



H. W. Shaw Quotes: "The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last."

The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.



H. W. Shaw Quotes: "Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand."

Democracy is a word all public men use and none understand.



H. W. Shaw Quotes: "What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead."

What use are cartridges in battle? I always carry chocolate instead.



H. W. Shaw Quotes: "Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors."

Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.



H. W. Shaw Quotes: "Violence is the repartee of the illiterate."

Violence is the repartee of the illiterate.



H. W. Shaw Quotes: "The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die."

The joy in life is to be used for a purpose. I want to be used up when I die.



H. W. Shaw Quotes: "Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself."

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out. That is what it is for. Spend all you have before you die; do not outlive yourself.



H. W. Shaw Quotes: "I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind."

I like a state of continual becoming, with a goal in front and not behind.



H. W. Shaw Quotes: "When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him."

When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.



H. W. Shaw Quotes: "Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes."

Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.



H. W. Shaw Quotes: "I wish I had a nickel for every song that I've left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or just totally forgotten about"

I wish I had a nickel for every song that I've left in the bathroom, written down on a matchbox, or just totally forgotten about



H. W. Shaw Quotes: "No one smiled at me, or looked at me twice; shopping has become my time of reckoning; I will never be able to purchase the stardom I have lost."

No one smiled at me, or looked at me twice; shopping has become my time of reckoning; I will never be able to purchase the stardom I have lost.



H. W. Shaw Quotes: "Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out."

Use your health, even to the point of wearing it out.



H. W. Shaw Quotes: "Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy."

Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.



H. W. Shaw Quotes: "The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight."

The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.



H. W. Shaw Quotes: "Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing."

Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.



H. W. Shaw Quotes: "I can be very stubborn. I'm very opinionated and if people cross me at work - if people who don't know about the job try telling me what to do - I become very stubborn and really rather unpleasant."

I can be very stubborn. I'm very opinionated and if people cross me at work - if people who don't know about the job try telling me what to do - I become very stubborn and really rather unpleasant.



H. W. Shaw Quotes: "That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms."

That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.



H. W. Shaw Quotes: "The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor."

The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor.



H. W. Shaw Quotes: "We have a 'now you see Him, now you don't' God. We have Himself clothed in visions, in dreams, in metaphors, in parables, in the poetry of the Bible, and in all the ordinariness of the lives we live."

We have a 'now you see Him, now you don't' God. We have Himself clothed in visions, in dreams, in metaphors, in parables, in the poetry of the Bible, and in all the ordinariness of the lives we live.



H. W. Shaw Quotes: "Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?"

Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?



H. W. Shaw Quotes: "My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience."

My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.



H. W. Shaw Quotes: "Life would be tolerable but for its amusements."

Life would be tolerable but for its amusements.



H. W. Shaw Quotes: "Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability."

Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.



H. W. Shaw Quotes: "I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal"

I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal



H. W. Shaw Quotes: "Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it."

Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.



H. W. Shaw Quotes: "Telling the truth is the funniest joke in the world."

Telling the truth is the funniest joke in the world.



H. W. Shaw Quotes: "Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays."

Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.



H. W. Shaw Quotes: "When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them."

When Satan makes impure verses, Allah sends a divine tune to cleanse them.



H. W. Shaw Quotes: "The education of the doctor which goes on after he has his degree is, after all, the most important part of his education."

The education of the doctor which goes on after he has his degree is, after all, the most important part of his education.



H. W. Shaw Quotes: "Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty."

Obedience simulates subordination as fear of the police simulates honesty.