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.
George Bernard Shaw
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We are often jealous of our little secrets, though to another ear they generally convey neither profit nor entertainment.
Eden Phillpotts
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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.
Victor Hugo
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San Francisco has only one drawback—‘tis hard to leave.
Rudyard Kipling
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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.
Heather Bresch
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Some women have a weakness for shoes... I can go barefoot if necessary. I have a weakness for books.
Oprah Winfrey
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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.
Deborah Cavendish, Duchess of Devonshire