Reasonable Interest
I want to know how Bernard Shaw
Likes beefsteak—fairly done, or raw?
I want to know what kinds of shoes
M. Maeterlinck and Howells use.
I have great curiosity
Regarding George Ade’s new boot tree.
Has Carolyn Wells of late employed
Hairpins of wire or celluliod?
What kind of soap does London like?
Does Robert Chambers ever 'hike'?
Or did he ever? Or, if not,
Does he like cabbage, cheese, or what?
I want to know the size of gloves
Oppenheim wears, and if he loves
Olives, and how his clothes are made.
What does he eat? How is he paid?
All sorts of things I want to learn,
That are not of the least concern
To any one. For, Oh! and Oh!
I want to know! I WANT TO KNOW!
I want to know, and know I will—
The printing press is never still,
For me it prints such facts as these!
I am the Public, if you please!
poem by Ellis Parker Butler
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Song of the Little White Girl
Cabbage tree, cabbage tree, what is the matter?
Why are you shaking so? Why do you chatter?
Because it is just a white baby you see,
And it's the black ones you like, cabbage tree?
Cabbage tree, cabbage tree, you're a strange fellow
With your green hair and your legs browny-yellow.
Wouldn't you like to have curls, dear, like me?
What! No one to make them? O poor cabbage tree!
Never mind, cabbage tree, when I am taller,
And if you grow, please, a little bit smaller,
I shall be able by that time, bay be,
To make you the loveliest curls, cabbage tree.
poem by Katherine Mansfield
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Higgins: Good-bye, mother. [He is about to kiss her, when he recollects something.] Oh, by the way, Eliza, order a ham and a Stilton cheese, will you? And buy me a pair of reindeer gloves, number eights, and a tie to match that new suit of mine, at Eale & Binman's. You can choose the color. [His cheerful, careless, vigorous voice shows that he is incorrigible.]
line from Pygmalion by George Bernard Shaw (1912)
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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
quote by George Bernard Shaw
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First love is only a little foolishness and a lot of curiosity.
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I learned long ago, never to wrestle with a pig. You get dirty, and besides, the pig likes it.
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If more than ten percent of the population likes a painting it should be burned, for it must be bad.
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A broken heart is a very pleasant complaint for a man in London if he has a comfortable income.
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Better never than late.
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The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
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The Churches must learn humility as well as teach it.
George Bernard Shaw in St. Joan
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Englishmen hate Liberty and Equality too much to understand them. But every Englishman loves a pedigree.
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Except during the nine months before he draws his first breath, no man manages his affairs as well as a tree does.
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An index is a great leveller.
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Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability.
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It took me twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public.
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All great truths begin as blasphemies.
George Bernard Shaw in Annajanska (1919)
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To be clever enough to get a great deal of money, one must be stupid enough to want it.
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The things most people want to know about are usually none of their business.
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The more things a man is ashamed of, the more respectable he is.
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Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.
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