L. M. Shaw Quotes
It's all that the young can do for the old, to shock them and keep them up to date.
The most tragic thing in the world is a man of genius who is not a man of honor.
Gentle Jesus, meek and mild' is a snivelling modern invention, with no warrant in the gospels.
If a woman rebels against high-heeled shoes, she should take care to do it in a very smart hat
The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want and if they can't find them, make them.
I'm not the kind of guy who deserves to play a vintage guitar because I'm too rough on instruments.
We are sick of war, we don't want to fight, And yet we gorge ourselves upon the dead.
When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front porch with him and sing songs.
Our first duty, to which every other consideration should be sacrificed, is not to be poor.
There is a disease to which plays as well as men become liable with advancing years. In men it is called doting, in plays dating.The more topical the play the more it dates.
Once there was a time when all people believed in God and the church ruled. This time is called the Dark Ages. He who can, does. He who cannot teaches.
Jazz was born out of the whiskey bottle, was raised on marijiana, and will expire on cocaine.
A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
Success lasts only three seconds. After that you're the same as you were before you had it.
A pessimist is a man who thinks everybody is as nasty as himself, and hates them for it.
I'm not a teacher: only a fellow traveler of whom you asked the way. I pointed ahead - ahead of myself as well as you.
Marriage is popular because it combines the maximum of temptation with the maximum of opportunity.
Of all human struggles there is none so treacherous and remorseless as the struggle between the artist man and the mother woman.
Vivisection is a social evil because if it advances human knowledge, it does so at the expense of human character.
Alcohol is a very necessary article. It enables Parliament to do things at eleven at night that no sane person would do at eleven in the morning.
An election is a moral horror, as bad as a battle except for the blood; a mud bath for every soul concerned in it.
There is only one belief that can rob death of its sting and the grave of its victory. For without that you cannot be born again.
The last paragraph in which you tell what the story is about is almost always best left out.
The confusing of marriage with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other single error.
You cannot learn to skate without making yourself ridiculous - the ice of life is slippery.
What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to keep a motor car?
I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.
Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination.
The whole world is strewn with snares, traps, gins and pitfalls for the capture of men by women.
Nobel Prize money is a life-belt thrown to a swimmer who has already reached the shore in safety.
New opinions often appear first as jokes and fancies, then as blasphemies and treason, then as questions open to discussion, and finally as established truths.
Of all the anti-social vested interests the worst is the vested interest in ill-health.
If you must hold yourself up to your children as an object lesson, hold yourself up as a warning and not as an example.
It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's to keep unmarried as long as he can.