George Bernard Shaw Quotes

The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

George Bernard Shaw

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• Many people would be more truthful were it not for their uncontrollable desire to talk.

  

  E. W. Howe
  • People
  • Desire
  • Talk

• The testimony and the documentary evidence produced by the Government demonstrate that the Bell System had violated the antitrust laws in a number of ways over a lengthy period of time.

  

  Harold H. Greene
  • Time
  • Government
  • Period

• Real integrity is doing the right thing, knowing that nobody's going to know whether you did it or not.

  

  Oprah Winfrey
  • Real
  • Integrity
  • The Right Thing

• It's really just my Hammurabi code of journalism ethics, that I don't want to ask someone to do something that I won't do myself.

  

  Hailey Gates
  • Myself
  • Ethics
  • Journalism

• People are fond of that 'crabs in a barrel' mentality, and I'm like, 'No, there needs to be more so we can create more barrels; there doesn't need to be one barrel.'

  

  Omari Hardwick
  • People
  • Need
  • Create

• When I have an argument with someone, even with someone I am not very close with, I can't sleep at night thinking about it. It's terrible. But I still manage speak out frankly because I have also been gifted with the ability to read people. I can sense when they start to get irritated with me, and then, I shift.

  

  Hans Rosling
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Night

• The publishing of a book is a worldwide event. The attempt to suppress a book is a worldwide event.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Book
  • Event
  • Attempt

• There's so many things that I've gone through that I want to share because there's other teenagers that are going through the same things or will go through the same things.

  

  Sabrina Carpenter
  • Want
  • Same
  • Teenagers

• The one good thing is that I get a lot more good scripts coming through my letterbox. 'Vera Drake' raised my profile in one way, and then 'Harry Potter' in another.

  

  Imelda Staunton
  • Good
  • Way
  • More

• The best way to learn a language may be an episode of jail in a foreign country.

  

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb
  • Country
  • May

• In European thought in general, as contrasted with American, vigor, life and originality have a kind of easy, professional utterance. American - on the other hand, is expressed in an eager amateurish way. A European gives a sense of scope, of survey, of consideration. An American is strained, sensational. One is artistic gold; the other is bullion.

  

  Wallace Stevens
  • Life
  • American
  • Hand

• A man with money is no match against a man on a mission.

  

  Doyle Brunson
  • Money

• I'm very positive - music-wise, production-wise and life-wise.

  

  Martin Garrix Area21
  • Life
  • Music
  • Positive

• Being a die-hard Knicks fan, I remember hunting down these orange-and-blue Nikes that they only released in England. And I used to hunt for sneakers when I DJ'd in Japan. But then Nike flooded the market with a head-spinning array of color combinations and it just didn't seem cool anymore.

  

  Mark Ronson
  • Remember
  • Die
  • Cool

• I'm a huge 'Nightmare before Christmas' fan, but that was also Henry Selick. I'm a really big fan of 'Sleepy Hollow.' I love 'Big Fish,' too, which is a bit different. There's a really cool era of early-Burton stuff like 'Ed Wood' that I'm a big fan of.

  

  Kate Leth
  • Different
  • Cool
  • Christmas

• When I started secondary school, it was assumed that the girls would do domestic science and the boys would do science, and I wasn't too happy with that.

  

  Jocelyn Bell Burnell
  • School
  • Happy
  • Science

• I want to play some really good, interesting, crazy characters. I want to take some chances. I want to take risks. I want to have fun and just keep working. That's all I really care about.

  

  Andie MacDowell
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Interesting

• I just remember falling in love with the old Chris Brown music, where it was, like, that real R&B, and I love the radio smashes he's put out since then, but I go back to his older music for that R&B.

  

  Kehlani
  • Music
  • Real
  • Remember

• It is a well-known fact that we see the faults in other's works more readily than we do in our own.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Fact
  • Works
  • Faults

• When I read these books, I no longer felt like I was confined to a very tiny world. I no longer felt housebound and bedbound. Really, I told myself, I was just brainbound. And this was not such a sorry state of affairs. My brain, with a little help from other people's brains, could take me to some pretty interesting places, and create all kinds of wonderful things. Despite its faults, my brain, I decided, was not the worst place in the world to be.

  

  Gavin Extence
  • World
  • Faults
  • Confined

• The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality; it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought, and its first reaction is one of anger.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • World
  • Thought
  • Anger

• I was constantly, always and forever, trying to perform the musical 'Annie' for anyone who would listen, and I have a terrible singing voice. It was the first thing that made me think I wanted to be an actress.

  

  Sarah Paulson
  • Thinking
  • Trying
  • Singing

• The market does not drive the scientists, the communicators, the thinkers, the government to do the right things.

  

  Bill Gates
  • Market
  • Scientists
  • Communicators

• The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.

  

  George Bernard Shaw
  • Faults
  • Qualities
  • Burglar