L. M. Shaw Quotes
It is long and hard and painful to create life: it is short and easy to steal the life others have made.
If in the library of your house you do not have the works of the ancient Greek writers, then you live in a house with no light.
The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood
It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.
I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.
We want a few mad people now. See where the sane ones have landed us!
You can always tell an old soldier by the inside of his holsters and cartridge boxes. The young ones carry pistols and cartridges; the old ones, grub.
Even a vortex is a vortex in something. You can't have a whirlpool without water; and you can't have a vortex without gas, or molecules or atoms or ions or electrons or something, not nothing.
Man gives every reason for his conduct save one, every excuse for his crimes save one, every plea for his safety save one; and that one is his cowardice
Idiots are always in favour of inequality of income (their only chance of eminence), and the really great in favour of equality.
NAPOLEON: What shall we do with this soldier, Giuseppe? Everything he says is wrong. GIUSEPPE: Make him a general, Excellency, and then everything he says will be right.
Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find? That the stables are the real centre of the household.
Disobedience, the rarest and most courageous of the virtues, is seldom distinguished from neglect, the laziest and commonest of the vices.
What is the use of straining after an amiable view of things, when a cynical view is most likely to be the true one?.
There was only one virtue, pugnacity; only one vice, pacifism. That is an essential condition of war.
As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.
One of my objectives when I started Biocon was to make sure that I create a company for women scientists to pursue a vocation.
Emotional excitement reaches men through tea, tobacco, opium, whisky, and religion.
The best reformers the world has ever seen are those who commence on themselves.
When our relatives are at home, we have to think of all their good points or it would be impossible to endure them.
Life is a flame that is always burning itself out; but it catches fire again every time a child is born. Life is greater than death, and hope than despair.
There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.
I have studied him - the wonderful man - and in my opinion far from being an anti-Christ he must be called the saviour of humanity.
We should all be obliged to appear before a board every five years and justify our existence... on pain of liquidation.
I was really running a music school back then, because my band wasn't making any money. I keep talking about money, because most people don't understand the part of money in running a band.
The philosopher is Nature's pilot. And there you have our difference: to be in hell is to drift: to be in heaven is to steer.
One man that has a mind and knows it can always beat ten men who haven't and don't.
A moderately honest man with a moderately faithful wife, moderate drinkers both, in a moderately healthy house: that is the true middle class unit.
Englishmen never will be slaves; they are free to do whatever the government and public opinion allow them.
