I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.
Quote by George Bernard Shaw
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I would like to take you seriously, but to do so would be an affront to your intelligence.
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George Bernard Shaw Quotes
- If women were particular about men's characters, they would never get married at all.
- When I was young, I observed that nine out of ten things I did were failures. So I did ten times more work.
- The art of government is the organisation of idolatry.
- Youth is a wonderful thing. What a crime to waste it on children.
- You use a glass mirror to see your face you use works of art to see your soul.
- Beware of false knowledge it is more dangerous than ignorance.
- The power of accurate observation is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it.
- Men are wise in proportion, not to their experience, but to their capacity for experience.
- Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
- Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
Best Quotes
- Checking the results of a decision against its expectations shows executives what their strengths are, where they need to improve, and where they lack knowledge or information.
- Passion for fame: A passion which is the instinct of all great souls.
- Judge of a man by his questions rather than by his answers.
- There is no excellent beauty that hath not some strangeness in the proportion.
- One must work and dare if one really wants to live.
- Dreams are necessary to life.
- But my dad also was a remarkable man, a good person, a principled individual, a man of integrity.
- We should often blush for our very best actions, if the world did but see all the motives upon which they were done.
- Our last jam session was this past Christmas. Dad played his harmonica, mom sang in English and Italian, and I played guitar. I'm so happy that we could share that musical experience for one last time.
- I did stand-up comedy for 18 years. Ten of those years were spent learning, four years were spent refining, and four years were spent in wild success. I was seeking comic originality, and fame fell on me as a byproduct. The course was more plodding than heroic.