I.B. George Quotes
Literature is like any other trade; you will never sell anything unless you go to the right shop.
You must not suppose, because I am a man of letters, that I never tried to earn an honest living.
Besides, do any of us understand what we are doing? If we did, would we ever do it?
The only way for a woman to provide for herself decently is for her to be good to some man that can afford to be good to her.
My father must have had some elementary education for he could read and write and keep accounts inaccurately
People must not be forced to adopt me as their favourite author, even for their own good.
What is wrong with the prosaic Englishman is what is wrong with the prosaic men of all countries: stupidity.
This is my father. Try what you can with him! He won't listen to me, because he remembers what a fool I was when I was a baby.
I am a sort of collector of religions: and the curious thing is that I find I can believe in them all.
Well, sir, you never can tell. That's a principle in life with me, sir, if you'll excuse my having such a thing.
If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community
He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that private doctors were ignorant licensed murders.
He who has nothing to assert has no style and can have none: he who has something to assert will go as far in power of style as its momentousness and his conviction will carry him
The conversion of Paul was no conversion at all; it was Paul who converted the religion that has raised one man above sin and death.
Communism, being the lay form of Catholicism, and indeed meaning the same thing, has never had any lack of chaplains.
The salvation of the world depends on the men who will not take evil good-humouredly, and whose laughter destroys the fool instead of encouraging him.
The domestic career is no more natural to all women than the military career is natural to all men.
Human misery is so appalling nowadays that if we allowed ourselves to dwell on it we should only add imaginary miseries of our own to the real miseries of others without doing them any good.
Vulgarity is a necessary part of a complete author's equipment; and the clown is sometimes the best part of the circus.
If associations to control burglary and murder were tolerated we should take it for granted that the members should all be burglers and murderers.
There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.
I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance.
When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside.
People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.
Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.
I am very subtle; but Man is deeper in his thought than I am. The woman knows that there is no such thing as nothing: the man knows that there is no such day as tomorrow. I do well to worship them.
You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .
It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.
That's what children do - throw food. That's not fighting. We were real men. We'd have chinned them.
Even at the height of my fame, 50 per cent of the people who saw me wanted a fight; it’s the downside of being a star player.
When they first installed all-seater stadiums everyone predicted that the fans wouldn't stand for it
Learning about acting for camera is really quite exciting to engage with and deal with.
Tradition is what is in the heart and soul of your home, your country, and social environment. Tradition evolves, and it changes regardless of what you do to maintain it.
As soon as I finished the Russian course, I was sent to Korea with the task of trying to establish an agent network, a network in the so called maritime provinces.
When we think of the past, we forget the fools and remember the sage. We reverse the process for our own time.
Edgar was named as one of the players involved, but he was in my room, discussing religious subjects with me.
Curt Gowdy was a pioneer in our business and set the highest standards for everyone. His many contributions to ABC as host of 'American Sportsman' and other ABC Sports programs are indelible .
Obviously we're celebrating a 36-year legacy on ABC and the end of an era, but we're also celebrating the start of a new era with this great property on ESPN. It's a bit of mixed emotions.
I joined the Young Liberals when I was 16 and it was a good way for me to understand how the Liberal Party worked and to learn basic political skills and techniques.
The arts are part of a nation's identity, they are part of a nation's soul and when we look at a country from the eyes of people overseas they are part of a nations branding in the world as it were.
The tyranny of distance is such an important element of policy and the allocation of resources.