Gentleman Quote by George Bernard Shaw Download Open image “Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.” — George Bernard Shaw ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.1 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Gentleman Mad Made Reading
“Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.” — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“He said if I warn’t so ignorant, but had read a book called Don Quixote, I would know without asking. He said it was… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“Don Quixote is so crazy that he is sure no author could have invented him” — Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra Copy Share Image
“Reading Don Quixote can be compared to an indefinite visit from your most impossible senior relative, with all his pranks, dirty habits, unstoppable reminiscences,… — Martin Amis (Author Copy Share Image
“While clearly an impregnable masterpiece, Don Quixote suffers from one fairly serious flaw—that of outright unreadability.” — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
“A novel does not assert anything, a novel poses questions... The stupidity of people comes from having an answer for everything. When Don Quixote… — Milan Kundera Copy Share Image
“Don Quixote is not an imaginary person; he is as real as Alexander the Great.” — Dejan Stojanovic Copy Share Image
I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
“Who reads Incessantly, and to his reading brings not A spirit and judgment equal or superior Uncertain and unsettled still remains, Deep versed in… — George Fillmore Swain Copy Share Image
Was there ever yet anything written by mere man that was wished longer by its readers, excepting Don Quixote, Robinson Crusoe, and the Pilgrim's… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“A foolish man clings to wrong views, mocks the teaching of the righteous, and invites ruin and destruction.” — Thích Nhất Hạnh Copy Share Image
“For what says Quinapalus? Better a witty fool than a foolish wit.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State). — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In the arts of life, man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at the age… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“But I’ve developed a great reputation for wisdom by ordering more books than I ever had time to read, and reading more books, by… — Marilynne Robinson Copy Share Image
I failed, I think, seven [or] eight times before I finally got my first [championship]. It was just, you know, just about me growing… — Shaquille O'Neal Copy Share Image
Brothers all In honour, as in one community, Scholars and gentlemen. — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
I like to be bought flowers and taken out for dinner. I like a man to be a gentleman. I don't like to be… — Sharon Stone Copy Share Image
A gentleman is not born but crafted. He had to work on himself in the same way as a sculptor shaped a rough stone… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Some Iranian doctors from Europe and America go to Iran and operate for free or teach medical students there. The other day, I met… — Farah Diba Copy Share Image
What's wrong with death sir? What are we so mortally afraid of? Why can't we treat death with a certain amount of humanity and… — Robin Williams Copy Share Image
The president of the United States of North America, George W. Bush, the little gentleman of the North, the political cadaver that is visiting… — Hugo Chavez Copy Share Image
To call him a dog hardly seems to do him justice, though inasmuch as he had four legs, a tail, and barked, I admit… — Hermione Gingold Copy Share Image
“Can a magician kill a man by magic?” Lord Wellington asked Strange. Strange frowned. He seemed to dislike the question. “I suppose a magician… — Susanna Clarke Copy Share Image
Gentlemen, comrades, do not be concerned about all you hear about Glasnost and Perestroika and democracy in the coming years. They are primarily for… — Mikhail Gorbachev Copy Share Image
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