H. W. Shaw Quotes
The truth is, hardly any of us have ethical energy enough for more than one really inflexible point of honor.
Civilization is a disease produced by the practice of building societies with rotten material.
Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.
Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course.
All my life affection has been showered upon me, and every forward step I have made has been taken in spite of it.
You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you had lost something.
You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.
Orchestras only need to be sworn at, and a German is consequently at an advantage with them, as English profanity, except in America, has not gone beyond a limited technology of perdition.
When domestic servants are treated as human beings it is not worth while to keep them.
The English have no respect for their language, and will not teach their children to speak it.
The whole strength of England lies in the fact that the enormous majority of the English people are snobs.
I have not wasted my life trifling with literary fools in taverns, as Johnson did, when he should have been shaking England with the thunder of his spirit
Fashions are the only induced epidemics, proving that epidemics can be induced by tradesmen.
As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.
We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.
There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the wrong. He does everything on principle.
Posterity makes the judgments. There are going to be a lot of surprises in store for everybody.
A good editor understands what you're talking and writing about and doesn't meddle too much.
In the theater, characters have to cut the umbilical cord from the writer and talk in their own voices
If you're young enough, any kind of writing you do for a short period of time is a marvelous apprenticeship.
No writer need feel sorry for himself if he writes and enjoys it, even if he doesn't get paid.
There's so many bigger things in the world. The art world is such a tiny little thing compared to wars and migration crises. It's weird to be self-absorbed in it.
I feel like I have to avoid certain thrift store-isms, having been known for the thrift store paintings. It's like I have to not paint that way.
My legacy is going to be in affordable health care. I am willing to invest in developing that model and the policies around it.
You have to build a culture of philanthropy. In a country like India, we need to be sensitive and caring about the poorer, more disadvantaged section of our country.
As a traditionally risk-averse nation, India has rarely been at the forefront of innovation. Indian companies have mostly imitated others and became very good at it.
If I won the lottery,I would love to buy an airfield and populate it with enthusiasts like myself, and old airplanes.
It sounds very pretentious, but I don't lie. It's too uncomfortable. A lot of people think because you're an actor that makes you a good liar, but one of the things I can't articulate is a bad lie.
The only thing is worrying about sleeping. If I have to be up early I worry about being able to get to sleep.
I was born in Alabama and my first live music experiences were in church. Every Sunday we watched regional gospel groups on television singing their hearts out
We were playing popular music, but we were doing our own arrangements because we were too lazy to sit down and figure out the originals
I like being on the road, living in hotels. While I've got a real nice house, I go crazy when I'm there.