Quotes with [george

Quotes 641 till 660 of 1785.

  • Lord George Byron I should be very willing to redress men wrongs, and rather check than punish crimes, had not Cervantes, in that all too true tale of Quixote, shown how all such efforts fail.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • George Eliot I should like to know what is the proper function of women, if it is not to make reasons for husbands to stay at home, and still stronger reasons for bachelors to go out.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • Lord George Byron I should like to know who has been carried off, except poor dear me - I have been more ravished myself than anybody since the Trojan war.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way: by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Santayana I sometimes think we all die at twenty-five and after that are nothing but walking corpses, with gramophones inside.
    George Santayana
    Spanish - American philosopher (1863 - 1952)
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  • Lord George Byron I stood among them, but not of them; in a shroud of thoughts which were not their thoughts.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • Lord George Byron I swims in the Tagus all across at once, and I rides on an ass or a mule, and swears Portuguese, and have got a diarrhea and bites from the mosquitoes. But what of that? Comfort must not be expected by folks that go a pleasuring.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • George H.W. Bush I take as my guide the hope of a saint: in crucial things, unity... in important things, diversity... in all things, generosity.
    George H.W. Bush
    American politician and president (41st) (1924 - 2018)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I tell you that as long as I can conceive something better than myself I cannot be easy unless I am striving to bring it into existence or clearing the way for it.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Eliot I tell you there isn't a thing under the sun that needs to be done at all, but what a man can do better than a woman, unless it's bearing children, and they do that in a poor make-shift way; it had better ha been left to the men.
    George Eliot
    English writer and poet (1819 - 1880)
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  • George Carlin I think it's the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.
    George Carlin
    American stand-up comedian, actor and author (1937 - 2008)
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  • Lord George Byron I think the worst woman that ever existed would have made a man of very passable reputation - they are all better than us and their faults such as they are must originate with ourselves.
    Lord George Byron
    English poet (1788 - 1824)
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  • George W. Bush I think we all agree, the past is over.
    Source: Dallas Morning News, May 10, 2000
    George W. Bush
    American politician (1946 - )
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  • George Bird Evans I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better.
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  • George Orwell I understand HOW. I do not understand WHY.
    George Orwell
    English writer (ps. of Eric Blair) (1903 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I want to be all used up when I die.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I want to be thoroughly used up when I die, for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Foreman I want to keep fighting because it is the only thing that keeps me out of the hamburger joints. If I don't fight, I'll eat this planet.
    George Foreman
    American professional boxer (1949 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw I was a freethinker before I knew how to think.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • George Bernard Shaw I was always unlawful; I broke the law when I was born because my parents weren't married.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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