George Bernard Shaw Quotes
It is always necessary to overstate a cast startlingly to make people sit up and listen to it, and to frighten them into acting on it.
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We feel and know that we are eternal.
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I used to skip breakfast, but eating gets my metabolism going, so I burn more calories all day.
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One of the best pieces of advice I ever got was from a horse master. He told me to go slow to go fast. I think that applies to everything in life. We live as though there aren't enough hours in the day but if we do each thing calmly and carefully we will get it done quicker and with much less stress.
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Some editors are failed writers, but so are most writers.
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It's strange that words are so inadequate. Yet, like the asthmatic struggling for breath, so the lover must struggle for words.
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Coming from TV and film, rule number one is that you always service the main character first and foremost. If that's not working, you've got nothing.
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God never gives us discernment in order that we may criticize, but that we may intercede.
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Grandmothers are to life what the Ph.D. is to education. There is nothing you can feel, taste, expect, predict, or want that the grandmothers in your family do not know about in detail.
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What is called liberality is often no more than the vanity of giving, of which some persons are fonder than of what they give.
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We pay a high price for intelligence. Wisdom hurts.
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Never any knowledge was delivered in the same order it was invented.
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One does not have humor. It has you.
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We are often jealous of our little secrets, though to another ear they generally convey neither profit nor entertainment.
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Nothing can be more depressing than to expose, naked to the light of thought, the hideous growth of argot. Indeed it is like a sort of repellent animal intended to dwell in darkness which has been dragged out of its cloaca. One seems to see a horned and living creature viciously struggling to be restored to the place where it belongs. One word is like a claw, another like a sightless and bleeding eye; and there are phrases which clutch like the pincers of a crab. And all of it is alive with the hideous vitality of things that have organized themselves amid disorganization.
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San Francisco has only one drawback—‘tis hard to leave.
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Women don't necessarily understand that it is possible to have the same level of ambition as men - they allow themselves to be held back by the obstacles rather than empowered by the possibilities.
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Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.
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Our underclothes were woolen vests and knickers and an extraordinary, but apparently necessary, concoction called a liberty bodice, which had no freedom about it, so how it got its name I cannot imagine. It was made of some harsh stuff, with here and there straps and buttons that did nothing.
