Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
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“In gambling the many must lose in order that the few may win.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“You don't gamble to win. You gamble so you can gamble the next day.”
Source: A Remarkable Medicine Has Been Overlooked
Source: Flying: The Aviation Trilogy
“I prefer unlucky things. Luck is vulgar. Who wants what luck would bring? I don't.”
Source: D. H. Lawrence: The Complete Novels (Book House)
“Even paranoids have real enemies.”
Source: The Ego Is Always at the Wheel: Bagatelles
“Some people pay a compliment as if they expected a receipt.”
“Most of my friends seem to be either dead, extremely deaf or living on the wrong side of Kent.”
“He's very, very well-known. I'd say he's world-famous in Melbourne.”
Source: Modern Manners: An Etiquette Book for Rude People
Source: The Lost Continent: Travels in Small-town America
Source: The Strange Case of the Spotted Mice and Other Classic Essays on Science
“Never assume that habitual silence means ability in reserve.”
“This is a free country, madam. We have a right to share your privacy in a public place.”
Source: Romanoff and Juliet
“Gold was not altogether certain what, anatomically, a gorge was, but he knew that his was rising.”
Source: Good as Gold
“A chrysanthemum by any other name would be easier to spell.”
“The dusk was performing its customary intransitive operation of "gathering".”
“Let's find out what everyone is doing, And then stop everyone from doing it.”
“You will always find some Eskimo ready to instruct the Congolese on how to cope with heatwaves.”
Source: All done from memory
“The fellow who laughs last may laugh best, but he gets the reputation of being very slow-witted.”
“The old middle-class prerogative of being permanently in a most filthy temper.”
“All beginnings are delightful; the threshold is the place to pause.”
“He that has a secret should not only hide it, but hide that he has it to hide.”
“Age is deformed, youth unkind, We scorn their bodies, they our mind.”
“One has to resign oneself to being a nuisance if one wants to get anything done.”
“I am afraid he has one of those terribly weak natures that are susceptible to influence.”
Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more
“If you have nothing good to say about anyone, come and sit with me.”
“Long experience has told me that to be criticized is not always to be wrong.”