#nat

Which painting in the National Gallery would I save if there was a fire? The one nearest the door of course. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#door #fire #gallery #i #national

Assassination is the extreme form of censorship. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#censorship #extreme #form

She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#conversation #had #lost #power #she

Home life is no more natural to us than a cage is natural to a cockatoo. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#cage #home life #life #more #natural

Kings are not born: they are made by artificial hallucination. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#born #hallucination #kings #made

Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#affairs #before #breath #does #draws

The natural term of the affection of the human animal for its offspring is six years. ↗

— George Bernard Shaw

#animal #human #human animal #natural #offspring

My views naturally have mellowed. Most of the critics have been more or less nice to me. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#critics #less #me #more #more or less

When I started out in the early 1930s, there were a great many magazines that published short stories. Unfortunately, the short-story market has dwindled to almost nothing. ↗

— Irwin Shaw

#dwindled #early #great #i #magazines

It often happens that when a person possesses a particular ability to an extraordinary degree, nature makes up for it by leaving him or her incompetent in every other department. ↗

— Robert Shea

#degree #department #every #extraordinary #happens