W. L. George Quotes

Must then a Christ perish in torment in every age to save those that have no imagination?

He that leaveth nothing to Chance will do few things ill but he will do very few things.

There is no cure for birth or death save to enjoy the interval.

The mind which renounces once and forever a futile hope has its compensations in ever-growing calm.

An actor is a guy who if you ain't talking about him ain't listening.

Opening night is the night before the play is ready to open.

An old man concludeth from his knowing mankind that they know him too and that maketh him very wary.

Before you contradict an old man my fair friend you should endeavour to understand him.

I must be getting absent-minded. Whenever I complain that things aren't what they used to be I always forget to include myself.

The true America is the Middle West and Columbus discovered nothing at all except another Europe.

Boston is a moral and intellectual nursery always busy applying first principles to trifles.

If artists and poets are unhappy it is after all because happiness does not interest them.

Where did you come from baby dear? Out of the Everywhere into here.

Beauty as we feel it is something indescribable what it is or what it means can never be said.

Those evening bells! those evening bells! How many a tale their music tells!

I stay away from natural foods. At my age I need all the preservatives I can get.

You know you're getting old when you stoop to tie your shoes and wonder what else you can do while you're down there.

In show business the key word is honesty. Once you've learned to fake that the rest is easy.

When the white man came we had the land and they had the bibles. Now they have the land and we have the bibles.

belongs anywhere even the Rocky Mountains are still moving.

Whenever the Germans found the Canadian Corps coming into the line they prepared for the worst.

Capital is a result of labor and is used by labor to assist it in further production. Labor is the active and initial force and labor is therefore the employer of capital.

In matters of commerce the fault of the Dutch Is offering too little and asking too much. The French are with equal advantage content So we clap on Dutch bottoms just 20%.

Labour is not a commodity or a standard or a means to an ulterior end but an end in itself.

In embracing change entrepreneurs ensure social and economic stability.

What we frankly give forever is our own.

A cheerful look makes a dish a feast

It is not by driving away our brother that we can be alone with God.

The fixed determination to have acquired the warrior soul to either conquer or perish with honor is the secret of victory.

I don't want people who want to dance I want people who have to dance.

Wars may be fought with weapons but they are won by men. It is the spirit of the men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.

All men are afraid in battle. The coward is the one who lets his fear overcome his sense of duty. Duty is the essence of manhood.

The human spirit is stronger than anything that can happen to it.

There is danger in reckless change but greater danger in blind conservatism.

I am a choreographer. A choreographer is a poet. I do not create. God creates. I assemble and I will steal from everywhere to do it.

He that hath lost his credit is dead to the world.

Cynicism is intellectual dandyism without the coxcomb's feathers.

There is nothing to which men while they have food and drink cannot reconcile themselves.

Nothing you can lose by dying is half so precious as the readiness to die which is man's charter of nobility.

The difficulty of life is in the choice.

Gentlemen of die Jury: The one absolute unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world the one that never deserts him the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous is his dog.

Ah what a dusty answer gets the soul when hot for certainties in this our life!

I have never been drunk but I've often been overserved.

I've never been drunk but often I've been overserved.

'Whom are you?' he asked for he had been to night school.

Every man has a House of Lords in his own head. Fears prejudices misconceptions - those are the peers and they are hereditary.

England is the paradise of individuality eccentricity heresy anomalies hobbies and humours.

Nothing great in the world has been accomplished without passion.

We can accomplish almost anything within our ability if we but think that we can!

Wars may be fought with weapons but they are won by men. It is the spirit of men who follow and of the man who leads that gains the victory.