H. W. Shaw Quotes

Anarchism is a game at which the police can beat you.

When a lion meets another with a louder roar, the first lion thinks the last a bore.

If you do not say a thing in an irritating way, you may as well not say it at all because people will not trouble themselves about anything that does not trouble them.

It is not the number of years we have behind us, but the number we have before us, that makes us careful and responsible and determined to find out the truth about everything.

When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.

If a man is indolent, let him be poor. If he is drunken, let him be poor.... Also--somewhat inconsistently--blessed are the poor!

Fear is choosing the safe course

Martyrdom is the only path to immortality that requires no talent whatsoever.

Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord.

For nearly twenty years I have been a published author... But I have never yet seen a book of mine offered for sale in a shop window.

I hate performers who debase great works of art; I long for their annihilation.

A tranquil woman can go on sewing longer than an angry man can go on fuming.

I am justified. For I chose wisdom and the knowledge of good and evil ; and now there is no evil; and wisdom and good are one. It is enough.

I am the most spontaneous speaker in the world because every word, every gesture, and every retort has been carefully rehearsed.

Sherlock Holmes was a drug addict without a single amiable trait.

An English army led by an Irish general: that might be a match for a French army led by an Italian general.

God has given us a world that nothing but our own folly keeps from being a paradise.

Every fool believes what his teachers tell him, and calls his credulity science or morality as confidently as his father called it divine revelation.

If all you are going to do in life are the things that are convenient and comfortable, the great things never get done.

I wish people would stop talking about my birthday.

All roads end at the grave, which is the gate to nothingness.

We are told that when Jehovah created the world he saw that it was good what would he say now

What a man is depends on his character; but what he does, and what we think of what he does, depends on his circumstances.

Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the worst.

I was a cannibal for twenty-five years. For the rest I have been a vegetarian.

I like flowers, I also like children, but I do not chop their heads off and keep them in bowls of water around the house.

A contract for better for worse is a contract that should not be tolerated.

Life is a disease; and the only difference between on man and another is the stage of the disease at which he lives.

There is only one universal passion fear.

I don't believe in morality . I'm a disciple of Bernard Shaw.

Just as I cannot remember any time when I could not read and write, I cannot remember any time when I did not exercise my imagination in daydreams about women.

This planet is obviously being used as an insane asylum by other planets.

Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.

The conversion of a savage to Christianity is the conversion of Christianity to savagery.

Shall I turn up the light for you? No, give me deeper darkness. Money is not made in the light.

People who are hard, grasping and always ready to take advantage of their neighbors become very rich.

The British are apt to make merits of their stupidities, and to represent their various incapacities as points of good breeding.

It is assumed that the woman must wait, motionless, until she is wooed. That is how the spider waits for the fly.

The one point on which all women are in furious secret rebellion against the existing law is the saddling of the right to a child with the obligation to become the servant of a man.

Nothing makes a man so selfish as work.

You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of them will tell you that they are ten times as happy

Whether you think Jesus was God or not, you must admit he was a first-rate political economist.

A married man forms married habits and becomes dependent on marriage just as a sailor becomes dependent on the sea.

Oh, well, if you want original conversations, you'd better go and talk to yourself.

When it comes to the point, really bad men are just as rare as really good ones.

My friend, when a man has anything to tell in this world, the difficulty is not to make him tell it, but to prevent him from telling it too often.

The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.

I know I began as a passion and have ended as a habit , like all husbands .

You practically do not use semicolons at all. This is a symptom of mental defectiveness, probably induced by camp life.

God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit.