We have no more right to consume happiness without producing it than to consume wealth without producing it. George Bernard Shaw, Candida (1898) act 1
Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) I never resist temptation because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me. George Bernard Shaw, The Apple Cart (1930)
Irish dramatist & socialist (1856 - 1950) Ah! the clock is always slow;<br> It is later than you think. Robert Service, Ballads of a Bohemian (1921)
Canadian poet (1874 - 1958) When I am asked, "What do you think of our audience?" I answer, "I know two kinds of audiences only--one coughing, and one not coughing." Arthur Schnabel, My Life and Music (1961)
Austrian composer & pianist (1882 - 1951) The notes I handle no better than many pianists. But the pauses between the notes--ah, that is where the art resides! Arthur Schnabel, in Chicago Daily News, June 11 1958
Austrian composer & pianist (1882 - 1951) Hell is other people. Jean-Paul Sartre, Closed Doors (1944)
French author & existentialist philosopher (1905 - 1980) Existence precedes and rules essence. Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness (1943)
French author & existentialist philosopher (1905 - 1980) A writer must refuse to allow himself to be transformed into an institution. Jean-Paul Sartre, Upon refusing the Nobel Prize, Oct. 22, 1964
French author & existentialist philosopher (1905 - 1980) Every time I paint a portrait I lose a friend. John Singer Sargent, quoted in Bentley and Esar, Treasury of Humorous Quotations (1951)
US (Italian-born) portrait painter (1856 - 1925) Intolerance itself is a form of egoism, and to condemn egoism intolerantly is to share it. George Santayana, Winds of Doctrine (1913) ch. 4
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