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 . . . SEX SYMBOLS see "ACTORS" for related links - Blonde hair and breasts, that's how I got started. I couldn't act. All I had was my blonde hair and a body men liked. The reason I got ahead is that I was lucky and met the right men. They would tell me that I was beautiful, wonderful, you name it. They all acted the same way. I didn't have to say a word. Just take my dress off. They just took their pleasure and ran. I didn't care. I was used to it. --Marilyn Monroe [Norma Jean Mortenson] (1926-1962), American actress I don't mind being burdened with being glamorous and sexual. But what goes with it can be a burden . . . people take a lot for granted and expect an awful lot for very little. A sex symbol becomes a thing. I just hate to be a thing. --Marilyn Monroe [Norma Jean Mortenson] (1926-1962), American actress -  ;void(0)) SHAKESPEARE (WILLIAM) . . William Shakespeare (1564-1616) English dramatist see "PEOPLE" for related links Entirely incidentally, a little-known fact about Shakespeare is that his father moved to Stratford-upon-Avon from a nearby village shortly before his son's birth. Had he not done so, the Bard of Avon would instead be known as the rather less ringing Bard of Snitterfield. --Bill Bryson (1951- ) American writer of humorous travel books He was not of an age, but for all time! --Ben Jonson (c.1573-1637) English dramatist and poet, "To the Memory of My Beloved, the Author, Mr William Shakespeare" [1623] After all, all he did was string together a lot of old, well-known quotations. --H.L. (Henry Louis) Mencken (1880-1956) American journalist and literary critic, (on Shakespeare) Saw `Romeo & Juliet,' a play of itself the worst that I ever heard in my life--`Midsummer Night's Dream,' which I had never seen before, nor shall ever again, for it is the most insipid, ridiculous play that ever I saw in my life--`Twelth Night," acted well, though it be but a silly play. --Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) English diarist and naval administrator, _Diary_ - The girls today in society Go for classical poetry, So to win their hearts, you must quote with ease Aeschylus and Euripides; But the poet of them all, Who will start them simply ravin' Is the poet people call The bard of Stratford-on-Avon! Brush... up... your Shakespeare, Start... quoting him now! Brush... up... your Shakespeare, And the women you will wow! Just declaim a few lines from Othello And she'll think you're a hell of a fellow; If your blonde won't respond when you flatter her, Tell her what Tony told Cleopaterer If she fights when her clothes you are mussing What are clothes? much ado About nussing! Brush... up... your Shakespeare, And they'll all kowtow! --Cole Porter (1892-1964) American songwriter, "Brush Up your Shakespeare" [1948 song from the show _Kiss Me Kate_ ] - With the single exception of Homer, there is no eminent writer, not even Sir Walter Scott, whom I can despise so entirely as I despise Shakespeare when I measure my mind against his.... But I am bound to add that I pity the man who cannot enjoy Shakespeare. He has outlasted thousands of abler thinkers, and will outlast a thousand more. --George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist propagandist, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925 {EB}, _Dramatic Opinions and Essays_ [1907], "Blaming the Bard" The Devil can quote Shakespeare for his own purposes. --George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist propagandist, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925 {EB} - A great man! Why, I doubt if there are six his equal in the whole of Boston. --said to W. E. Gladstone by an unnamed Bostonian. . . see "CHARACTER" for related links For many years, after one of my pictures opened, a very intelligent letter would arrive from a woman living in Stratford-on-Avon, Shakespeare's birthplace. The letters were well written, in a beautiful feminine hand in lavender ink, each a favorable critique of the movie. Intrigued, I answered. A correspondence sprang up which became warmer and friendlier over the years. I wondered what she looked like. I pictured someone like Louise Livingston, tall and dark, walking along the banks of the Avon, composing verses. One day, a book of verse did arrive. _Poems for K_, each poem inspired by a scene from one of my movies. The tempo of our correspondence increased. We both fell in love--with me. Now, more than ever, I was anxious to meet her, face to face, "breath to breath, where hushed awakenings are dear." I rented a lovely flat in Belgravia, with a little garden. When I got settled in, I called her on the phone, lowered my voice. "Hello, Kirk here." "Yes, of course, that same voice." And she sounded just the way I thought she would. I invited her to my flat for tea. That seemed the proper invitation. I would send my car and driver. "Five o'clock," she said. "That would be fine." My voice got lower. It was a typical London day, drizzling. The butler lit a fire in the fireplace. I wore a velvet lounging jacket with an ascot. I wanted our first meeting to be perfect. The doorbell rang. "I'll get it," I told the butler. I slowly walked to the door and opened it. I wasn't quite prepared. She was extremely short, ugly, and leaned on a cane, looking up at me through very thick glasses. I tried to conceal my shock. "Please, come in." She hobbled past me into the room. That's when I noticed the hump on her back. I tried to cover my hysteria by being overly polite and solicitous, pouring tea and offering sandwiches. She had the same musical voice I had heard on the telephone, but she didn't say much, because I did most of the talking, hastily, perspiration on my hands and forehead in spite of the cold London afternoon. She didn't stay long and politely bade me good-bye. I never heard from her again. Maybe she was disappointed in finding something ugly in me that could not see something beautiful in her. I've often wondered. --Kirk Douglas [Issur Danielovitch] (1916- ) American film actor and producer, _The Ragman's Son_ [1988], Ch. 24 - Only the Shallow know themselves. --Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) . . see "EMOTIONS & FEELINGS" for related links One improper word or act will neutralize the effect of many good ones; and one base deed, after years of noble service, will cover them all with shame. --James H. Aughey (1828-1911) American clergyman. There is a good reason the words 'shameful' and 'shameless' define the same conduct. You know you've behaved shamefully if you have exposed other people to needless annoyance or embarrassment. You don't know you've behaved shamelessly if you don't get this point. --Christopher Hitchens (1949- ) British journalist, author, and literary critic, "The Death of Shame" in _Vanity Fair_ [March 1996] No one can disgrace us but ourselves. --Josiah Gilbert Holland (1819-1881) American novelist, poet, and editor of "Scribner’s Magazine." When I look back upon the more than sixty years that I have spent on this entrancing earth, and when I am asked which of all the changes that I have witnessed appears to me to be the most significant, I am inclined to answer that it is the loss of a sense of shame. --Harold Nicolson (1886-1968) English diplomat, politician, and writer. Shame is like everything else; live with it for long enough and it becomes part of the furniture. --Salman Rushdie (1947- ) Indian-born British novelist, _Shame_ [1983] If you destroy delicacy and a sense of shame in a young girl, you deprave her very fast. --Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811-1896) American writer and philanthropist. [Sister of Henry Ward Beecher, daughter of Lyman Beecher]. I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed. --Jonathan Swift (1667-1745) Anglo-Irish poet and satirist. _Thoughts on Various Subjects_ [1711] ----- odium (noun) ['o-dee-êm] The stain of deepest dishonor, such as disgrace from evil behavior; hatred or repulsion elicited by degenerate acts. This word is stronger than hatefulness. . . Why are not more gems from our great authors scattered over the country? Let every bookworm, when in any fragrant, scarce, old tome he discovers a sentence, a story, an illustration, that does his heart good, hasten to give it. --Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772-1834) English poet, critic, and philosopher I am but a gatherer, and a disposer of other men's stuff. If the world like it not, so much the worse for them. --William Cowper (1731-1800) English poet and hymnodist - If wisdom were offered me with the proviso that I should keep it shut up and refrain from declaring it, I should refuse. There's no delight in owning anything unshared. --Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C.- 65 A.D.) Roman philosopher and poet, _Moral Letters to Lucilius_ tr. Richard M. Gummere [1918] No good thing is pleasant to possess without friends to share it. --Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C.- 65 A.D.) Roman philosopher and poet, "On Sharing Knowledge" in _Moral Letters to Lucilius_ tr. Richard M. Gummere [1918] Let us possess things in common; for birth is ours in common. Our relations with one another are like a stone arch, which would collapse if the stones did not mutually support each other. --Lucius Annaeus Seneca (4 B.C.- 65 A.D.) Roman philosopher and poet, "On the Usefulness of Basic Principles" in _Moral Letters to Lucilius_ tr. Richard M. Gummere [1918] - Talent is always conscious of its own abundance, and does not object to sharing. --Alexander Solzhenitsyn (1918- ) Russian novelist. _The First Circle_, p. 3 [1968] . . George Bernard Shaw (1856-1950) Irish comic dramatist, literary critic, Socialist propagandist, and winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1925 {EB} see "PEOPLE" for related links Oh dear me--it's too late to do anything but *accept* you and *love* you--but when you were quite a little boy somebody ought to have said 'hush' just once. --Mrs. Patrick Campbell [Beatrice Stella Tanner] (1865-1940) British stage actress. Letter to GBS [1 November 1912]. A strange lady giving an address in Zurich wrote him a proposal thus: 'You have the greatest brain in the world, and I have the most beautiful body; so we ought to produce the most perfect child.' Shaw asked: "What if the child inherits my body and your brains?" --Hesketh Pearson (1887-1964) English actor and biographer. _Bernard Shaw, His Life and Times_ [1963] I remember coming across him at the Grand Canyon and finding him peevish and refusing to admire it or even look at it properly. He was jealous of it. --J.B. [John Boynton] Priestley (1894-1984) English novelist, playwright and critic. _Thoughts in the Wilderness_ In 1934 he [Shaw] excused Hitler's violence and brutality. In 1935 he demanded that his friends give him the fascist salute, and he ended articles in defense of Nazism with a "Heil Hitler." …When Nazi battalions attacked Poland in September [1939], Shaw was ready to announce to the BBC that "Mr. Hitler did not begin this war; we did"; and he maintained elsewhere that "we are not the terrified victims of Mr. Hitler's aggression: quite the reverse." After Britain had entered the war, Shaw still eulogized the German dictator for "moral courage" and "diplomatic sagacity." …"I have no prejudice against him personally: much that he has written and spoken echoes what I myself have written and said." Shaw admired Mussolini even more than Hitler…Shaw defends both Mussolini's torturing of political prisoners with overdoses of castor oil and the bombings in 1935 of defenseless Abyssinians. In Italy's African war, he [Shaw] favored "the necessary intimidation" of the Abyssinian natives to the point of necessary "extermination." --Arnold Silver, _Bernard Shaw: The Darker Side_, Stanford, 1982, pp. 38-39. and note: When Mussolini invaded Abyssinia and made it possible for a stranger to travel there without being killed by the native Danakils he was rendering the same service to the world as we had in rendering by the same methods (including poison gas) in the north west provinces of India, and had already completed in Australia, New Zealand, and the Scottish highlands. It was not for us to throw stones at Musso, and childishly refuse to call his puppet king Emperor. But we did throw stones, and made no protest when his star was eclipsed and he was scandalously lynched in Milan. --GBS, Preface (1945) to _Geneva_ (1938), in _Complete Plays with Prefaces_, Vol. V, [1963], p. 642. - You invite Shaw down to your place because you think he will entertain your friends with brilliant conversation. But before you know where you are he has chosen a school for your son, made your will for you, regulated your diet and assumed all the privileges of your family solicitor, your housekeeper, your clergyman, your doctor and your dressmaker. When he has finished with everyone else he incites the children to rebellion. And when he can find nothing more to do he goes away and forgets all about you. --anonymous hostess, quoted in Bennett Cerf (1898-1971) American author, humorist, and publisher, _Shake Well Before Using_ [1948] ;void(0)) SHEEP . . see: "ANIMALS" see: "FOLLOWERS" see: "INDIVIDUALITY" see: "OPINION" You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men. --Sir Max Beerbohm (1872—1956) English satirist and caricaturist. _Zuleika Dobson_ [1911] In order to be an immaculate member of a flock of sheep, one must above all be a sheep oneself. --Albert Einstein (1879—1955) German-American physicist who developed the special and general theories of relativity. We're poor little lambs who've lost our way, Baa! Baa! Baa! We're little black sheep who have gone astray, Baa - aa - aa! Gentlemen rankers out on the spree, Damned from here to Eternity, God ha' mercy on such as we, Baa! Yah! Baa! --Rudyard Kipling (1865—1936) English writer and poet. _Gentlemen Rankers_, (also known as_The Whiffenpoof Song_) It is better to live one day as a tiger than a thousand years as a sheep. --Benito Mussolini (1883—1945) Italian Fascist dictator. In Denis Mack-Smith _Mussolini's Roman Empire_ [1967]. The mountain sheep are sweeter, But the valley sheep are fatter. We therefore deemed it meeter To carry off the latter. --Thomas Love Peacock (1785—1866) English satirist and author. "The Misfortune of Elphin—The War-Song of Dinas Vawr" - We are discreet sheep; we wait to see how the drove is going, and then go with the drove. --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835—1910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. "Well, there were sixty-eight people there, and sixty-two of them had no more desire to throw a stone than you had." "Satan!" "Oh, it's true. I know your race. It is made up of sheep. It is governed by minorities, seldom or never by majorities. It suppresses its feelings and its beliefs and follows the handful that makes the most noise. Sometimes the noisy handful is right, sometimes wrong; but no matter, the crowd follows it. The vast majority of the race, whether savage or civilized, are secretly kind-hearted and shrink from inflicting pain, but in the presence of the aggressive and pitiless minority they don't dare to assert themselves. Think of it! One kind-hearted creature spies upon another, and sees to it that he loyally helps in iniquities which revolt both of them. Speaking as an expert, I know that ninety-nine out of a hundred of your race were strongly against the killing of witches when that foolishness was first agitated by a handful of pious lunatics in the long ago. And I know that even to-day, after ages of transmitted prejudice and silly teaching, only one person in twenty puts any real heart into the harrying of a witch. And yet apparently everybody hates witches and wants them killed. Some day a handful will rise up on the other side and make the most noise — perhaps even a single daring man with a big voice and a determined front will do it — and in a week all the sheep will wheel and follow him, and witch-hunting will come to a sudden end." --Mark Twain [Samuel Langhorne Clemens] (1835-1910) American humorist, novelist, journalist, and river pilot. _The Mysterious Stranger_ [1916], ch. 9 - It never troubles the wolf how many the sheep may be. --Virgil (70—19 B.C.) Roman poet. We hear of a silent generation, more concerned with security than integrity, with conforming than performing, with imitating than creating. --Thomas J. Watson, Sr. (1874—1956) American industrialist and founder of IBM. - A flock of sheep that leisurely pass by, One after one ... I have thought of all by turns and yet do lie Sleepless! --William Wordsworth (1770—1850) English poet. _To Sleep_ II "A Flock of Sheep" & see: Wordsworth ... was a silly old sheep. --Ezra Pound (1885—1972) American expatriate poet and critic. - -- Australia: Where men are men and sheep are nervous. There was an old man of Khartoum Who kept a tame sheep in his room, "To remind me," he said, "Of someone who's dead, But I never can recollect whom." --anon. Some people count sheep, using numbers To hasten and lengthen their slumbers, But my nostrum entails Just curvaceous females, For I prefer figures to numbers. --anon. ----- lackey (noun) A servile follower. 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