Bernard Shaw Quotes

• During the last decades, films about the black experience have been produced, directed, and even scripted by white men. Some of them are excellent. But most reflect George Bernard Shaw’s warning that 'if you do not tell your stories others will tell them for you and they will vulgarize and degrade you.'

  Ismael Reed

  Hombres, Hombre Blanco, Negro

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• Why aren't people more successful? Because most people do not select and pursue a vision without regard for other objectives. Most people shift from one activity to another without any focused or directed purpose, naively assuming that things will take care of themselves or will be taken care of by others. George Bernard Shaw said, "The people who get on in this world are the people who get up and look for the circumstances they want, and if they can't find them, make them."

  Ari Kiev

  Success, Taken, People

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• Plato era sólo un Bernard Shaw que desgraciadamente hacía sus chistes en griego.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Plato, Greek, Made

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• La palabra "utopía" tiene dos significados. Significa tanto "buen lugar" como "ningún lugar". Así es como debería ser. Creo que los lugares más felices son los que están a un paso del paraíso. Sería insufrible vivir con la persona perfecta; del mismo modo, tampoco querríamos vivir en el lugar perfecto. "¡Una vida de felicidad! Ningún hombre podría soportarlo: Sería el infierno en la tierra", escribió George Bernard Shaw, en su obra Man and Superman.

  Eric Weiner

  Media, Hombres, Pensar

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• Deploring change is the unchangeable habit of all Englishmen. If you find any important figures who really like change, such as Bernard Shaw, Keir Hardie, Lloyd George, Selfridge or Disraeli, you will find that they are not really English at all, but Irish, Scotch, Welsh, American or Jewish. Englishmen make changes, sometimes great changes. But, secretly or openly, they always deplore them.

  Raymond Postgate

  Scotch, Important, Sometimes

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• My toils in the quotation field have led me to formulate two or three laws about the way people use and abuse quotations. My first law is: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to Bernard Shaw - which I don't mean to be taken literally, but as a general observation of the habit people have of attaching remarks to the nearest obvious speaker. Churchill, Wilde, Orson Welles and Alexander Woollcott are other useful figures upon whom to father remarks when you don't know who really said them.

  Nigel Rees

  Father, Taken, Mean

  "Sayings of the Century". Book by Nigel Rees, 1984.

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• The way Bernard Shaw believes in himself is very refreshing in these atheistic days when so many people believe in no God at all.

  Israel Zangwill

  Believe, People, History

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• I hate Bernard Shaw because he says that life is compromise.

  Christina Stead

  Hate, Compromise, Life Is

  Christina Stead (1945). “For Love Alone”, p.33, The Miegunyah Press

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• George Bernard Shaw writes like a Pakistani who has learned English when he was twelve years old in order to become an accountant.

  John Osborne

  Writing, Order, Years

  John Osborne (2014). “Damn You England: Collected Prose”, p.53, Faber & Faber

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• Hasta ahora, Bernard Shaw no ha llegado a ser lo bastante prominente como para tener enemigos, pero no cae bien a ninguno de sus amigos.

  Oscar Wilde

  Enemy, Enough, Prominent

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• George Bernard Shaw was right. He summed it all up when he said: "The secret of being miserable is to have the leisure to bother about whether you are happy or not." So don't bother to think about it! Spit on your hands and get busy. Your blood will start circulating; your mind will start ticking-and pretty soon this whole positive upsurge of life in your body will drive worry from your mind. Get busy. Keep busy. It's the cheapest kind of medicine there is on this earth-and one of the best.

  Dale Carnegie

  Inspirational, Thinking, Blood

  Dale Carnegie (2016). “How to stop worrying & start living”, p.62, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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• Erik Erikson has commented: Potentially creative men like (Bernard) Shaw build the personal fundament of their work during a self-decreed moratorium, during which they often starve themselves, socially, erotically, and, at last but not least, nutritionally, in order to let the grosser weeds die out, and make way for the growth of their inner garden.

  Lewis Hyde

  Hierba, Hombres, Jardín

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• Unless you are a Bernard Shaw you find a preface a most embarrassing business.

  Stacy Aumonier

  Vergonzoso

  Stacy Aumonier (1921). “The Golden Windmill: And Other Stories”

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• As George Bernard Shaw observed: "All great truths begin as blasphemies." Yet I have to say, the idea that there is intelligent life elsewhere in the cosmos does not seem terribly radical to me, nor does the notion that we could be receiving help from outside of our dimension.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Intelligent, Ideas, Doe

  Source: www.spiritualmediablog.com

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• Bernard Shaw remains the only model we have of what the citizen of a democracy should be: an informed participant in all things we deem important to the society and the individual.

  Jacques Barzun

  Democracy, Important, Citizens

  "A Jacques Barzun Reader: Selections from His Works (Bernard Shaw)". Book by Jacques Barzun (p. 231), December 24, 2001.

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• I don't believe in morality . I'm a disciple of Bernard Shaw.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Believe, Morality, Disciple

  George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.1626, e-artnow

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• George Bernard Shaw of England stopped over just long enough to make one speech in Bombay, India, started a war and 100 Indians killed each other. That's what I call good speech-making. The only enthusiasm any of our speakers can rouse is a demand to kill the speaker.

  Will Rogers

  Inspirational, War, Long

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• If a farmer calls me to a sick animal, he couldn't care less if I were George Bernard Shaw.

  James Herriot

  Animal, Sick, Care

  "But It Did Happen To A Vet" by Jonathan Margolis, "Time Magazine", December 12, 2002.

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• Mientras curioseaba un día en una librería de segunda mano, George Bernard Shaw se divirtió al encontrar un ejemplar de una de sus propias obras que él mismo había inscrito para un amigo: "Para ----, con estima, George Bernard Shaw." Inmediatamente compró el libro y se lo devolvió al amigo con una segunda inscripción: "Con renovada estima, George Bernard Shaw.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Book, Hands, One Day

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• Those were the days in this country where H. G. Wells, Bernard Shaw and Conan Doyle could have influence, and thats gone, thats true. But I dont think we have less influence in the hearts and minds of readers. I think, if anything, we have just as much, if not more.

  Julian Barnes

  País, Corazón, Pensamiento

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• At 83, George Bernard Shaw's mind was perhaps not quite as good as it used to be, but it was still better than anyone else's.

  Alexander Woollcott

  Mind, Used, Stills

  "While Rome Burns". Book by Alexander Woollcott, 1934.

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• ¿Qué o quién le llevó a dedicarse a la fotografía y en qué fecha?
  George Bernard Shaw - Siempre quise dibujar y pintar. No tenía ambiciones literarias. Aspiraba a ser un Miguel Ángel, no un Shakespeare. Pero no sabía dibujar lo suficientemente bien como para satisfacerme a mí mismo, y la instrucción que recibía era peor que inútil. Así que cuando aparecieron en el mercado las placas secas y los pulsadores, me compré una cámara de caja y empecé a pulsar el botón. Corría el año 1898.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Photography, Ambition, Buttons

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• I made use of the college library by borrowing books other than scientific books, such as all of the plays by George Bernard Shaw, the writing of Edgar Allan Poe. The college library helped me to develop a broader aspect on life.

  Linus Pauling

  Book, Writing, College

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• Churchill was one of the few men I have met who even in the flesh give me the impression of genius. George Bernard Shaw is another. It is amusing to know that each thinks the other is overrated.

  David Low

  Hombres, Pensar, Dar

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• People believe pictures. It's a photograph that's in your passport, not a painting. Now,
  George Bernard Shaw said, 'I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot.' That's what the power of photography is.

  Philip Jones Griffiths

  Photography, Believe, People

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