L. M. Shaw Quotes
Coming to know one another based on a shared humanity through dialogue is the key to breaking down the walls of isolation and reversing the decline of life-to-life bonds among human beings.
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.
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 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.
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.
No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus.
The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.
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.
Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.
Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.
The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.
A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
The novelties of one generation are only the resuscitated fashions of the generation before last.
Give women the vote, and in five years there will be a crushing tax on bachelors.
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.
When the master has come to do everything through the slave, the slave becomes his master, since he cannot live without him.
Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.
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
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.
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.
The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
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.
That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.
The energy released by it is enormous and it becomes quite addictive, the power between the audience and the actor.
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.
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?
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.
I imagine that my characters have become much more complicated than when I first began, which would be normal
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.
Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.
The education of the doctor which goes on after he has his degree is, after all, the most important part of his education.
