George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

George Bernard Shaw

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• Flattery is like chewing gum. Enjoy it but don't swallow it.

  

  Hank Ketcham
  • Enjoy
  • Flattery
  • Gum

• I'm not in favor of any discrimination of any form.

  

  Rand Paul
  • Form
  • Discrimination
  • Favor

• I'm opposed to fundamentalism in any form.

  

  Joanne Rowling
  • Form
  • Opposed
  • Any

• Whenever a partnership is formed, there has to be a benefit to the partners; otherwise, they don't form it.

  

  G. Edward Griffin
  • Form
  • Benefit
  • Partnership

• Almost all absurdity of conduct arises from the imitation of those who we cannot resemble.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Almost
  • Imitation
  • Absurdity

• One of the most amazing things about mathematics is the people who do math aren't usually interested in application, because mathematics itself is truly a beautiful art form. It's structures and patterns, and that's what we love, and that's what we get off on.

  

  Danica McKellar
  • People
  • Art
  • Beautiful

• When you sing in English and Spanish, it's two completely different forms of expression and... even the people who don't speak Spanish love to hear me sing in Spanish.

  

  Gloria Estefan Miami Sound Machine
  • People
  • Different
  • English

• If you want to make an ordinary man happy, or think that he is happy, give him money, power, flattery, gifts, honours. If you want to make a wise man happy - improve yourself!

  

  Idries Shah
  • Money
  • Power
  • Happy

• The capital amassed in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries through various forms of slave economy is still in circulation, said De Jong, still bearing interest, increasing many times over and continually burgeoning anew.

  

  W. G. Sebald
  • Form
  • Various
  • Capital

• I don't think there is such a thing as being too raunchy when it comes to the art form of burlesque.

  

  Christina Aguilera
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Form

• Every photograph is a battle of form versus content.

  

  Garry Winogrand
  • Photography
  • Battle
  • Form

• Modification of form is admitted to be a matter of time.

  

  Alfred Russel Wallace
  • Time
  • Form
  • Modification

• All forms of collectivism are mistaken, according to the human skull.

  

  T. H. White
  • Form
  • Skulls
  • Collectivism

• The only possible form of exercise is to talk, not to walk.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Exercise
  • Possible
  • Talk

• We are creatures of imitation. We find it hard to resist the temptation to do that which we see others doing.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Temptation
  • Resist
  • Imitation

• Implementation is the sincerest form of flattery.

  

  L Peter Deutsch
  • Form
  • Flattery
  • Implementation

• Nature has hardly formed a woman ugly enough to be insensible to flattery upon her person; if her face is so shocking that she must in some degree be conscious of it, her figure and her air, she trusts, make ample amends for it.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • She
  • Nature
  • Air

• Flattery, if judiciously administered, is always acceptable, however much we may despise the flatterer.

  

  Bill Vaughan
  • May
  • Despise
  • Flattery

• To remember everything is a form of madness.

  

  Brian Friel
  • Remember
  • Form
  • Madness

• You have to find the right situation, and you have to be in that right mindset where you can give everything you have to that. Because whatever I do, I want to be the best at. I want to be the best husband. I want to be the best father.

  

  J. J. Watt
  • Father
  • Best
  • Husband

• Nothing can compare in beauty, and wonder, and admirableness, and divinity itself, to the silent work in obscure dwellings of faithful women bringing their children to honor and virtue and piety.

  

  Henry Ward Beecher
  • Wonder
  • Beauty
  • Compare

• In less than a century after the barbarian nations settled in their new conquests, almost all the effects of the knowledge and civility, which the Romans had spread through Europe, disappeared. Not only the arts of elegance, which minister to luxury, and re supported by it, but many of the useful arts, without which life can scarcely be contemplated as comfortable, were neglected or lost.

  

  Bryan Ward-Perkins
  • Knowledge
  • Europe
  • Civility

• Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Form
  • Imitation
  • Flattery