George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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.

George Bernard Shaw

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• I have nothing to do with opinions. I deal only with armed rebellion and its aiders and abettors.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Nothing
  • Opinions
  • Rebellion

• A painting in a museum hears more ridiculous opinions than anything else in the world.

  

  Edmond de Goncourt
  • World
  • Painting
  • Opinions

• I definitely have my opinions that I'm very vocal about and I'm not afraid to put them out there.

  

  Adam Lambert
  • Afraid
  • Very
  • Opinions

• Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested.

  

  T. Berry Brazelton
  • Want
  • Will
  • Opinions

• I used to have so many opinions before I learned the facts.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • Facts
  • Learned
  • Opinions

• Fat jokes to me are always, always hilarious, as long as they're done towards yourself.

  

  Zach Galifianakis
  • Long
  • Always
  • Jokes

• I think whatever dress you wear, people will criticise you. Different people have different opinions.

  

  Irina Shayk
  • People
  • Different
  • Opinions

• 'The Lady's World' should be made the recognized organ for the expression of women's opinions on all subjects of literature, art and modern life, and yet it should be a magazine that men could read with pleasure.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Life
  • World
  • Pleasure

• Opinions have vested interests just as men have.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Men
  • Just
  • Opinions

• On occasion, a well-constructed drama can do what no reality or news program can do, what Shakespeare does brilliantly, is it can show both sides' opinions.

  

  Mandy Patinkin
  • Reality
  • Drama
  • Opinions

• Most jokes state a bitter truth.

  

  Larry Gelbart
  • Truth
  • Bitter
  • Jokes

• Recognize that dissenting opinions are useful even when they're wrong, and go out of your way to reward them.

  

  Adam Grant
  • Way
  • Opinions
  • Reward

• Entertaining these opinions of the course to be pursued, I beg of gentlemen to look at the question, as I have done, in a calm review of facts and of principles.

  

  Caleb Cushing
  • Done
  • Question
  • Facts

• I have opinions, sure, but they're mine, not something I'm going to insist everyone else take as any kind of gospel.

  

  Laura Anne Gilman
  • Kind
  • Everyone
  • Opinions

• We actually talked about Adam Sandler during the creation of 'Trolls,' because he does know how to time jokes.

  

  Walt Dohrn
  • Time
  • Jokes
  • Trolls

• Opinions are like assholes, everbody's got one.

  

  Harry Callahan
  • Opinions
  • Asshole

• I'll be the first to admit it, the life I'm leading is basically a joke. I should probably be cooler about it, but I can't fake it, you know?

  

  Andy Roddick
  • Life
  • Knows
  • Should

• The older you get, the funnier fart jokes are.

  

  Andy Samberg
  • Jokes
  • Fart

• Acting, to me, has been many things: It's a business, and it's a craft, and it's a political act - it's whatever adjective is most applicable.

  

  Adam Driver
  • Business
  • Political
  • Acting

• It is the responsibility of every adult... to make sure that children hear what we have learned from the lessons of life and to hear over and over that we love them and that they are not alone.

  

  Marian Wright Edelman
  • Life
  • Children
  • Alone

• Hearts will break - yet brokenly, live on.

  

  Lord Byron
  • Break
  • Hearts
  • Live On

• As much as I enjoy traveling and playing on stage as an artist, I really find my true sense of purpose in a room writing a song.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Writing
  • True
  • Song

• I love figuring out a stranger, sitting down and learning about their loves and struggles and everything. People are my jam.

  

  Cara Delevingne
  • People
  • Love
  • Learning

• 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.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Opinions
  • Jokes
  • Fancies