George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Oh, come! That boot is on the other leg. Why should you call me to account for eating decently? If I battened on the scorched corpses of animals, you might well ask me why I did that...
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Money enables us to get what we want instead of what other people think we want.
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The fickleness of the women I love is only equalled by the infernal constancy of the women who love me.
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The real pleasure of one's life is the devotion to a great objective of one's consideration.
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The reformer for whom the world is not good enough finds himself shoulder to shoulder with him that is not good enough for the world.
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The moment we want to believe something, we suddenly see all the arguments for it, and become blind to the arguments against it.
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When the world goes mad, one must accept madness as sanity; since sanity is, in the last analysis, nothing but the madness on which the whole world happens to agree.
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When you read a biography remember that the truth is never fit for publication.
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There is no accomplishment so easy to acquire as politeness and none more profitable.
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Love is a gross exaggeration of the difference between one person and everybody else.
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A man without an address is a vagabond; a man with two addresses is a libertine.
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It is more dangerous to be a great prophet or poet than to promote twenty companies for swindling simple folk out of their savings.
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The more a man possesses over and above what he uses, the more careworn he becomes.
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Assassination is the extreme form of censorship.
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During the last considerable epidemic at the turn of the century, I was a member of the Health Committee of London Borough Council, and I learned how the credit of vaccination is kept up statistically by diagnosing all the revaccinated cases (of smallpox) as pustular eczema, varioloid or what not---except smallpox.
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My rank is the highest known in Switzerland: I'm a free citizen.
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Cruelty must be whitewashed by a moral excuse, and pretense of reluctance.
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Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and employee.
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Only on paper has humanity yet achieved glory, beauty, truth, knowledge, virtue, and abiding love.
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Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession.
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Chloroform has done a lot of mischief. It's enabled every fool to be a surgeon.
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A succession of eye-openers each involving the repudiation of some previously held belief.
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Every dream is a prophecy: every jest is an earnest in the womb of Time.
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You know well I couldn't bear to live with a low common man after you two; and it's wicked and cruel of you to insult me by pretending I could.