Shaw Quotes

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At 83, George Bernard Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's.

I never drink while I'm working, but after a few glasses I get ideas that would never have occurred to me dead sober.

George Bernard Shaw said that thinking was the greatest of all human endeavors, but I would say that feeling was. Allowing yourself to feel things, to feel love or wrath, hatred, rage.

Nobody can read Freud without realizing that he was the scientific equivalent of another nuisance, George Bernard Shaw.

I was going to kiss him, and I was going to regret it. But at that moment, I couldn't bring myself to care.

In two thousand years all our generals and politicians may be forgotten, but Einstein and Madame Curie and Bernard Shaw and Stravinsky will keep the memory of our age alive.

If a farmer calls me to a sick animal, he couldn't care less if I were George Bernard Shaw.

George Bernard Shaw writes like a Pakistani who has learned English when he was twelve years old in order to become an accountant.

Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.

Concerning no subject would [George Bernard] Shaw be deterred by the minor accident of total ignorance from penning a definitive opinion.

The way Bernard Shaw believes in himself is very refreshing in these atheistic days when so many people believe in no God at all.

I must be made of nothing to feel so much nothing.

I must say Bernard Shaw is greatly improved by music.

I hate Bernard Shaw because he says that life is compromise.

Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated.

I don't believe in morality . I'm a disciple of Bernard Shaw.

Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek.

Bernard Shaw remains the only model we have of what the citizen of a democracy should be: an informed participant in all things we deem important to the society and the individual.

Rees's First Law of Quotations: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to George Bernard Shaw.

As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him.

Unless you are a Bernard Shaw you find a preface a most embarrassing business.

The problem with communication…is the illusion that is has been accomplished.

Loyalty in a critic is corruption.

A Photographer is limited to some types of Photography. An Artist is able to do any types of photography. It's just a matter of choice and feelings.

The American white relegates the black to the rank of shoeshine boy

If I were to live a thousand years, Iwould belong to you for all of them. If we were to live a thousand lives, I would want to make you mine in each one.

Don't criticise the person who talks to himself

Sometimes to escape the noise of haunting memories, you need your best friends hand in your own, to help erase the sound and fill you with a sense of peace, even if it’s temporary.

Belief in God meant belief in the old tribal idol called Jehovah

He didn't look like the same person who picked me up this morning. Noah--sarcastic, distant, untouchable Noah--cared. And that made him real.

I hate you, " I muttered.Noah smiled wider. "I know.

You smell good, " he whispered into my neck. He was warm against me. Instinctively, I arched back into him and smiled. "Really?" "Mmm-hmm. Delicious. Like bacon.

It would actually constitute more than a miracle, he realised. It would take divine intervention plus luck, plus some unknown element of cosmic wizardry.

You're supposed to say, 'All I want is your happiness. I'll do whatever it takes, even if it means being without you.'""Sorry, " Noah said. "I'm just not that big of a person.

War does not determine who is right — only who is left.

He knows nothing

The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor

You use a glass mirror to see your face

I was just going to say it reminds me of the symbols on a family crest.”Noah stopped mid-stride, and turned very slowly. “We’re not related.”“I know, but—”“Don’t even think it.

People are not interested in truths

Your lips are so soft and girly. I really must know what you use on them.

The two of us snuggled like quotation marks in his room full of words.

You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two

I know what I can do to a girl with a word, a look, a touch. And I want to do them all to her.

That is what all poets do: they talk to themselves out loud

You want me as much as I want you. And all I want is you."My tongue warred with my mind. "Today, " I whispered.Noah stood slowly, his body skimming mine as he rose. "Today. Tonight. Tomorrow. Forever.

The risks of liberty we must let everyone take

There are no perfectly honorable men

When a man wants to murder a tiger he calls it sport

When a beautiful blonde asks, you don't say no.