George Bernard Shaw Quotes
There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.
Quotes to Explore
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Politeness is the art of choosing among your thoughts.
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The only purpose of advertising is to make sales. It is profitable or unprofitable according to its actual sales.
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Meaningless combinations of words do not suddenly acquire meaning simply because we prefix to them the two other words ' God can'.
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Men acquire a particular quality by constantly acting in a particular way.
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Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others.
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The ability to compromise is not a diplomatic politeness toward a partner but rather taking into account and respecting your partner's legitimate interests.
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Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit.
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To acquire style, begin by affecting none.
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If I have the belief that I can do it, I shall surely acquire the capacity to do it even if I may not have it at the beginning.
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Offensive objects, at a proper distance, acquire even a degree of beauty.
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Politeness costs nothing. Nothing, that is, to him that shows it; but if often costs the world very dear.
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Virtue, perhaps, is nothing more than politeness of soul.
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If we conducted ourselves as sensibly in good times as we do in hard times, we could all acquire a competence.
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The only true source of politeness is consideration.
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You can acquire a lot of knowledge without ever going to school.
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The wish to acquire is in truth very natural and common, and men always do so when they can.but when they cannot do so, yet wish to do so by any means, then there is folly and blame.
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What is politeness in the home but the outcome of affection and self-respect, and the suppression of all those natural instincts of self-seeking that, allowed their way, produce the worst manners in the world?
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Society cares for the individual only so far as he is profitable.
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The sports page records people's accomplishments, the front page usually records nothing, but man's failures.
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Pity is extolled as the virtue of prostitutes.
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I always had a kind of strange relationship with New York City, with total love affair in the beginning then retreat during the kind of conservatives of politics and real estate and business came, and then I am again kind of fighting for the justice to the city, to open the city for the artists.
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Maybe a thing has to be smart enough to lose its mind.
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Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.
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There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.
