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I believe that just because something didn't go the way you planned it once, it's no reason not to try again.
— Chantelle Shaw
Alright, he's chucking his toys out the basket and Gary Shaw has a big mouth and shouts a lot.
— Joe Calzaghe
I played a lot of Bach's partitas and sonatas; I like the way that Bach was abstracting already from these dance forms.
— Caroline Shaw
Mixologist at a bar in the heavily gentrified Shaw neighbourhood, I fear I haven't a skinny-jeaned leg to stand on. S.D. PLATTON Washington, DC
— Anonymous
My dad's a surfer-psychologist, and my mother's an actress-fitness instructor, and we all practice Buddhism.
— Vinessa Shaw
It's not that I'm so clever, it is that others are so stupid.
— George Bernard Shaw
There's no future in being poor.
— Robert Shaw
Shaw is like a train. One just speaks the words and sits in one's place. But Shakespeare is like bathing in the sea - one swims where one wants.
— Vivien Leigh
But to admire a strong person
and to live under that strong person's thumb are
two different things. — George Bernard Shaw
and to live under that strong person's thumb are
two different things. — George Bernard Shaw
It is easy-terribly easy-to shake a man's faith in himself. To take advantage of that to to break a man's spirit is Devil's work.
— George Bernard Shaw
Fiona Shaw is one of my idols. She's phenomenatastic. I just make up a word for her - that's how much I love her.
— Rutina Wesley
There's a lot of different kinds of success. I'm so dedicated to the making of the art that the rest of my life atrophies, unfortunately.
— Jim Shaw
Of the two lots, the woman's lot of perpetual motherhood, and the man's of perpetual babyhood, I prefer the man's.
— George Bernard Shaw
My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.
— George Bernard Shaw
Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus.
— George Bernard Shaw
An entrepreneur's life is always a continuous journey.
— Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.
— George Bernard Shaw
It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man's
to keep unmarried as long as he can. — George Bernard Shaw
to keep unmarried as long as he can. — George Bernard Shaw
God's trustiest lieutenants often lack official credentials. They may be professed atheists who are also men of honour and high public spirit.
— George Bernard Shaw
A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care.
— George Bernard Shaw
If you leave the smallest corner of your head vacant for a moment, other people's opinions will rush in from all quarters.
— George Bernard Shaw
A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.
— George Bernard Shaw
It came on slowly, like the tide filling up the entire shore before you even realize it's coming in.
— Jennifer Shaw Wolf
Security, the chief pretense of civilization, cannot exist where the worst of dangers, the danger of poverty, hangs over everyone's head.
— George Bernard Shaw
There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject
— George Bernard Shaw
An Irishman's heart is nothing but his imagination.
— George Bernard Shaw
A man's interest in the world is only the overflow from his interest in himself.
— George Bernard Shaw
Professor Henry Higgins: Oh, Pickering, for God's sake stop being dashed and do something!
— George Bernard Shaw
Honey you are a woman of excellence. Excellence is not perfection it's progression
— Patricia Hardy-Shaw
If there is anything I hate in a woman, it's want of character.
— George Bernard Shaw
It is ridiculous to say that art has nothing to do with morality. What is true is that the artist's business is not that of the policeman.
— George Bernard Shaw
How can she? She's incapable of understanding anything. Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?
— George Bernard Shaw
Woman's happiness begins with her first love and ends about then
— George Bernard Shaw
The brewing industry is a very, very male dominated industry. It's a male bastion.
— Kiran Mazumdar-Shaw
On Shaw's principle that "if you don't get what you like, you better like what you get,
— F. Scott Fitgerald
It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.
— George Bernard Shaw
If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog.
— George Bernard Shaw
In a novel, it's hard to keep track of everybody.
— Irwin Shaw
Shaw's works make me admire the magnificent tolerance and broadmindedness of the english.
— James Joyce
Give a man health and a course to steer, and he'll never stop to trouble about whether he's happy or not.
— George Bernard Shaw
Justice is justice though it's always delayed and finally done only by mistake.
— George Bernard Shaw
Gay people should be allowed to get married. Just because somebody's gay doesn't mean he shouldn't suffer like the rest of us
— Jeff Shaw
Of all America's natural resources, its richest is an inexhaustible vein of irony.
— Markham Shaw Pyle
It's a dangerous thing to be married right up to the hilt, like my daughter's husband. The man is at home all day, like a damned soul in hell.
— George Bernard Shaw
Whoever promotes Palestine today promotes the rise of Hamas. It's as inevitable as storms after strong winds.
— Barry Shaw
The difference between a lady and a flower girl is not how she behaves, but how she's treated.
— George Bernard Shaw
I loathe bad theater and most theatre is very bad because it's repetitious, unexciting and, dangerously, it is sometimes praised for those things.
— Fiona Shaw
--here, now, always-- T.S. Eliot
— Sylvia Shaw Judson
If if's and and's were pots and pans, there'd be no need for tinkers.
— George Bernard Shaw
The bride's getting ready to toss her bouquet, so get me up there! Mom said the day after she turned 96.
— June Shaw
If we women were particular about men's characters, we should never get married at all.
— George Bernard Shaw
The philosopher is Nature's pilot.
— George Bernard Shaw
The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.
— George Bernard Shaw
Because it's always been you even when I didn't want it to be, even when it broke my heart over and over again. It's always been you.
— Jay Crownover
The vilest abortionist is he who attempts to mould a child's character.
— George Bernard Shaw
The worst sin towards our fellow creatures is not to hate them, but to be indifferent to them. That's the essence of inhumanity.
— George Bernard Shaw
A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence University education.
— George Bernard Shaw
She's a rock I want to break myself against.
— Michelle Hodkin
Curiously, the United States is full of writers who have one big work in their life and that's all.
— Irwin Shaw
If more than 10% of the people like a painting, you can be sure it's bad.
— George Bernard Shaw
If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
— George Bernard Shaw
You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.
— George Bernard Shaw
Independence? That's middle class blasphemy. We are all dependent on one another, every soul of us on earth.
— George Bernard Shaw
My chest, Stella's hip, Jamie's left ass cheek.
— Michelle Hodkin
They rode in a cab to the rendezvous spot. It was a warehouse, which didn't surprise Shaw.
"It's usually a damn warehouse," he said to Reggie. — David Baldacci
"It's usually a damn warehouse," he said to Reggie. — David Baldacci
Rees's First Law of Quotations: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to George Bernard Shaw.
— Nigel Rees
A man's own self is the last person to believe in him, and is harder to cheat than the rest of the world.
— George Bernard Shaw
Professor Henry Higgins: She's an owl, sickened by a few days of *my* sunshine.
— George Bernard Shaw
In theory it may seem all right to some, but when it comes to being made the instrument of the Lord's vengeance, I myself don't like it.
— Robert Gould Shaw
I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
— Fiona Shaw
Wilde's permanent celebrity belongs to literature, and only his transient notoriety to police news.
— George Bernard Shaw
I'm glad he's hungry. Not that I want him to suffer, poor chap! But then he'll enjoy eating me much more. There's a cheerful side to everything.
— George Bernard Shaw
I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog.
— George Bernard Shaw
One hardly knows which is the more appalling: the abjectness of the credulity or the flippancy of the scepticism.
- Shaw's Preface — George Bernard Shaw
- Shaw's Preface — George Bernard Shaw
Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing.
— George Bernard Shaw
In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
— George Bernard Shaw
Sexually,Woman is Nature's contrivance for perpetuating its highest achievement.
— George Bernard Shaw
Shaw's plays are the price we pay for Shaw's prefaces.
— James Agate
Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?
— George Bernard Shaw
The author relates George Bernard Shaw's sentiments that polite conversation excludes the only two subjects that matter, religion and politics.
— Lyle W. Dorsett
Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence
— George Bernard Shaw
You cannot have power for good without having power for evil too. Even mother's milk nourishes murderers as well as heroes.
— George Bernard Shaw
I've posed nude for a photographer in the manner of Rodin's Thinker, but I merely looked constipated.
— George Bernard Shaw
As an old soldier, I admit the cowardice: it's as universal as seasickness, and matters just as little.
— George Bernard Shaw
The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.
— George Bernard Shaw
Programmers are like magicians who fool everyone into thinking they are perfect and never wrong, but it's all an act. They make mistakes all the time.
— Zed A. Shaw
I must say Bernard Shaw is greatly improved by music.
— T. S. Eliot
Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
— George Bernard Shaw