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- Go anywhere in England where there are natural wholesome, contented and really nice English people; and what do you find? That the stables are the…
- Women upset everything. When you let them into your life, you find that the woman is driving at one thing and you're driving at another.
- We should find ourselves committed to killing a great many people whom we now leave living, and to leave living a great many people whom…
- 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…
- You can easily find people who are ten times as rich at sixty as they were at twenty but not one of them will tell…
- I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all.
- I am very sorry, but I cannot learn languages. I have tried hard, only to find that men of ordinary capacity can learn Sanskrit in…
- Marry Ann; and at the end of a week you'll find no more inspiration in her than in a plate of muffins.
- In your Salvation shelter I saw poverty, misery, cold and hunger. You gave them bread and treacle and dreams of heaven. I give from thirty…
- What man really wishes to do he will find a means of doing.
- There is nothing so bad or so good that you will not find Englishmen doing it; but you will never find an Englishman in the…
- Never forget that if you leave your law to judges and your religion to bishops, you will presently find yourself without either law or religion.
- Find enough clever things to say, and you're a Prime Minister; write them down and you're a Shakespeare.
- The best place to find God is in a garden. You can dig for him there.
- 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…
- Cruelty would be delicious if one could only find some sort of cruelty that didn't really hurt.
- While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he…
- What is life but a series of inspired follies? The difficulty is to find them to do. Never lose a chance: it doesn’t come every…
- My method is to take the utmost trouble to find the right thing to say, and then to say it with the utmost levity.
- If you take too long in deciding what to do with your life, you'll find you've done it.
- Perhaps you know some well-off families who do not seem to suffer from their riches. They do not overeat themselves; they find occupations to keep…
- People are always blaming their circumstances for what they are. I don't believe in circumstances. The people who get on in this world are the…
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