H. W. Shaw Quotes

You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.

Greatness is one of the sensations of littleness

Like fingerprints, all marriages are different.

All government is cruel; for nothing is so cruel as impunity.

We must reform society before we can reform ourselves.

Have you no morals, man?' 'Can't afford them,Governor.

Fashions are induced epidemics.

A great social reformer.

The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too humble for the world to discover it.

No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.

If parents would only realize how they bore their children.

Whenever you wish to do anything against the law, Cicely, always consult a good solicitor first.

The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.

I never accepted a knighthood because to me, is honour enough?

Every profession is a conspiracy against the laity.

It's so hard to know what to do when one wishes earnestly to do right.

I knew if I waited around long enough something like this would happen.

For four wicked centuries the world has dreamed this foolish dream of efficiency; and the end is not yet. But the end will come.

A miracle, my friend, is an event which creates faith.

No use slaving for me and then saying you want to be cared for: who cares for a slave? If you come back, come back for the sake of good fellowship; for you’ll get nothing else.

Would the world ever have been made if its maker had been afraid of making trouble?Making life means making trouble. There’s only one way of escaping trouble; and that’s killing things.

Even the youngest of us may be wrong sometimes.

Though I can make my extravaganzas appear credible, I cannot make the truth appear so.

A day's work is a day's work, neither more nor less, and the man or woman who does it needs a day's sustenance, a night's repose and due leisure, whether they be painter or ploughman.

Better see rightly on a pound a week than squint on a million.

The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.

Wise kings wear shabby clothes, and leave the gold lace to the drum major.

Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used.

It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them into acting on it.

Even if animal experimentation was proved to be of value, it would be morally wrong.

Hell is not all paved with bad intentions.

An idea that no one believes can not be proved too often.

Golf is typical capitalist luncay.

A newspaper, not having to act on its descriptions and reports, but only to sell them to idly curious people, has nothing but honor to lose by inaccuracy and non-veracity.

Who are those we love? Only those we do not hate.

When we want to read of the deeds that are done for love, whither do we turn? To the murder column.

People get nothing out of books but what they bring to them.

The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy; and he concludes from this that the black is good for nothing but shining shoes.

Women have been a ghastly nuisance in my life.

Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted.

Those who won't hesitate to vivisect, won't hesitate to lie about it as well.

Education can and should do much influence social, moral and intellectual discovery by stimulating critical attitudes of thought in the young

The real moment of success is not the moment apparent to the crowd.

Is the devil to have all the passions as well as all the good tunes?

Imprisonment, as it exists today, is a worse crime than any of those committed by its victims.

The capacity of any conqueror is more likely than not to be an illusion produced by the incapacity of his adversary.

An index is a great leveller.

If more than ten percent of the public likes a painting, it should be burned.

Consciousness of a fact is not knowing it: if it were, the fish would know more of the sea than the geographers and the naturalists.

There is a terrible truthfulness about photography that sometimes makes a thing look ridiculous.