L. M. Shaw Quotes

Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.

All progress depends upon the unreasonable person.

If I could have done anything more, it would have been less

I have never let gender get in my way. It has taken me over 30 years to get from a garage to the huge campus that we have today. And it's been a long journey.

I have a great team who has helped me build Biocon, I was very fortunate to be able to share my vision with a group of people who really were as excited about challenges as I was.

Liberty is the breath of life to nations.

The popular definition of tragedy is heavy drama in which everyone is killed in the last act, comedy being light drama in which everyone is married in the last act.

I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.

The churches must learn humility as well as teach it.

If you teach a man anything, he will never learn.

Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.

I hate the title of being called the richest woman in India, but it's the recognition that this was the value that I had created as a woman entrepreneur and that makes me very, very proud.

What is life but a series of inspired follies.

There is nothing more dangerous than the conscience of a bigot.

What we call education and culture is for the most part nothing but the substitution of reading for experience, of literature for life, of the obsolete fictitious for the contemporary real.

Indifference is the essence of inhumanity.

Statistics show that of those who contract the habit of eating, very few survive.

The only service a friend can really render is to keep up your courage by holding up to you a mirror in which you can see a noble image of yourself.

Life levels all men. Death reveals the eminent.

A fashion is nothing but an induced epidemic.

When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.

When a man says money can do anything, that settles it: he hasn't got any.

What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every day.

A man's interest in the world is only an overflow from his interest in himself.

The best way to get your point across is to entertain.

When people shake their heads because we are living in a restless age, ask them how they would like to life in a stationary one, and do without change

It is impossible for an Englishman to open his mouth without making some other Englishman hate or despise him.

The savage bows down to idols of wood and stone, the civilized man to idols of flesh and blood

The righteous man takes his life in his hand whenever he utters the truth.

Make money and the whole nation will conspire to call you a gentleman.

It is the first duty of every man not to be poor.

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.

In the right key one can say anything. In the wrong key, nothing: the only delicate part is the establishment of the key.

We veneer civilization by doing unkind things in a kind way.

In an ugly and unhappy world the richest man can purchase nothing but ugliness and unhappiness.

Man is the only animals of which I am thoroughly and cravenly afraid.

The heretic is always better dead. And mortal eyes cannot distinguish the saint from the heretic.

Most people go to their grave with their music inside them.

My religion? Well, my dear, I am a Millionaire. That is my religion.

It's a pity youth is wasted on the young.

A man who loses his money gains, at the least, experience, and sometimes, something better.

It's just as unpleasant to get more than you bargain for as to get less.

He who has never hoped can never despair

In theory it may seem all right to some, but when it comes to being made the instrument of the Lord's vengeance, I myself don't like it.

Socialism is the same as Communism, only better English.

The greatest of evils and the worst of crimes is poverty.

To be a champion you must live like one.

Keep away from books and from men who get their ideas from books, and your own books will always be fresh.

There is no business like show business. There is also no business like certified public accounting, but that doesn't rhyme as well.

Remember that the progress of the world depends on your knowing better than your elders.