Bernard shaw Quote by Stacy Aumonier Download Open image “Unless you are a Bernard Shaw you find a preface a most embarrassing business.” — Stacy Aumonier ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Bernard shaw Embarrassing
Concerning no subject would [George Bernard] Shaw be deterred by the minor accident of total ignorance from penning a definitive opinion. — Roger Scruton Copy Share Image
It's a business you go into because you're an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession. — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image
It's a business you go into because your an egocentric. It's a very embarrassing profession. — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image
There is no embarrassment quite like the embarrassment of listening to a person for whom one has a regard making a fool of himself. — Margaret Deland Copy Share Image
Shaw does not merely decorate a proposition, but makes his way from point to point through new and difficult territory. This explains why Shaw… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
I have found great power in taking my 'difference' out for a spin in a very public way. And usually, the worst, most personally… — Aimee Mullins Copy Share Image
It would appear, from the best examples, that the proper way of beginning a preface to one's work is with a humble apology for… — Ellen Glasgow Copy Share Image
If memory survived eternally, then indeed there might be justification for a belief in hell. — Stacy Aumonier Copy Share Image
Memory, with its fugitive adjustments, is the merciful veil to the grim enactments of the first law. It hides the anguish in the human… — Stacy Aumonier Copy Share Image
It is always easier to be an epicure of a small repast than of a banquet. — Stacy Aumonier Copy Share Image
Tradition is a fine thing. Nothing comes out of the blue, except perhaps thunderbolts and they are not really very useful things. — Stacy Aumonier Copy Share Image
The basic trouble is that people make statements without sufficient data. — Stacy Aumonier Copy Share Image
Women are like those blinkin' little Greek islands, places to call at but not to stay. — Stacy Aumonier Copy Share Image
Plato was only a Bernard Shaw who unfortunately made his jokes in Greek. — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
As George Bernard Shaw observed: "All great truths begin as blasphemies." Yet I have to say, the idea that there is intelligent life elsewhere… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
My toils in the quotation field have led me to formulate two or three laws about the way people use and abuse quotations. My… — Nigel Rees Copy Share Image
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… — Lewis Hyde Copy Share Image
Bernard Shaw remains the only model we have of what the citizen of a democracy should be: an informed participant in all things we… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
In two thousand years all our generals and politicians may be forgotten, but Einstein and Madame Curie and Bernard Shaw and Stravinsky will keep… — Anthony Burgess Copy Share Image
Nobody can read Freud without realizing that he was the scientific equivalent of another nuisance, George Bernard Shaw. — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
As yet, Bernard Shaw hasn't become prominent enough to have any enemies, but none of his friends like him. — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Rees's First Law of Quotations: When in doubt, ascribe all quotations to George Bernard Shaw. — Nigel Rees Copy Share Image
Deploring change is the unchangeable habit of all Englishmen. If you find any important figures who really like change, such as Bernard Shaw, Keir… — Raymond Postgate Copy Share Image