Monday, September 15, 2008

Quotes - George Bernard Shaw

Which painting in the National Gallery
would I save if there was a fire? The
one nearest the door of course.
- George Bernard Shaw

We don't bother much about dress and
manners in England, because as a nation
we don't dress well and we've no manners.
- George Bernard Shaw

"No question is so difficult to answer
as that to which the answer is obvious.’
- George Bernard Shaw

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished
one's business on earth, like the male spider, who is
killed by the female the moment he has succeeded in his
courtship. I like a state of continual becoming, with a
goal in front and not behind.
- George Bernard Shaw

"A government that robs Peter to pay Paul
can always depend on the support of Paul."
- George Bernard Shaw

"We are all dependent on one another,
every soul of us on earth."
- George Bernard Shaw