L. M. Shaw Quotes
Forgive him, for he believes that the customs of his tribe are the laws of nature!
Be a vegetarian. That was the best advice I ever took. It means I'm not involved in killing, that's the main thing.
I have found, after a good deal of consideration, that the best place to seek God is in a garden. You can dig for Him here.
Nobody can say a word against Greek: it stamps a man at once as an educated gentlemen.
Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.
You sometimes have to answer a woman according to her womanliness, just as you have to answer a fool according to his folly.
All young women begin by believing they can change and reform the men they marry. They can't.
Christmas is forced upon a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press; on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred.
It is very doubtful whether man is enough of a political animal to produce a good, sensible, serious and efficient constitution. All the evidence is against it.
If all the statisticians in the world were laid head to toe, they wouldn't be able to reach a conclusion
I find it easy to forgive the man who invented a devilish instrument like dynamite, but how can one ever forgive the diabolical mind that invented the Nobel Prize in Literature?
A photographer is like a cod, which produces a million eggs in order that one may reach maturity.
We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it.
It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.
Miracles, in the sense of phenomena we cannot explain, surround us on every hand: life itself is the miracle of miracles.
A love affair should always be a honeymoon. And the only way to make sure of that is to keep changing the man; for the same man can never keep it up.
Do not do unto others as you expect they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same.
Ernest Hemingway did a great deal toward making the writer an acceptable public figure; obviously, he was no sissy.
People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances.
Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.
I don't like the idea of killing my fellow creatures in order to eat their dead bodies.
The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
The right to know is like the right to live. It is fundamental and unconditional in its assumption that knowledge, like life, is a desirable thing.
Discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher.
In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language; the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.
A miracle is an event which creates faith. That is the purpose and nature of miracles. Frauds deceive. An event which creates faith does not deceive: therefore it is not a fraud, but a miracle.
It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
A true artist will let his wife starve, his children go barefoot, his mother drudge for his living at seventy, sooner than work at anything but his art.