George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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My schooling did me a great deal of harm and no good whatever; it was simply dragging a child's soul through the dirt.
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The British churchgoer prefers a severe preacher because he thinks a few home truths will do his neighbors no harm.
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Effectiveness of assertion is the alpha and omega of style.
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Nobody could stand an eternity of Heaven.
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Virtue consists, not in abstaining from vice, but in not desiring it.
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Hatred is the coward's revenge for being intimidated.
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A great social reformer.
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Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
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You can feel nothing but a torment, and believe nothing but a lie. You will not raise your head to look at all the miracles of life that surround you; but you will run ten miles to see a fight or a death.
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I want to be all used up when I die.
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The medical profession is a conspiracy to hide its own shortcomings. No doubt the same may be said of all professions. They are all conspiracies against the laity... Until there is a practicable alternative to blind trust in the doctor, the truth about the doctor is so terrible that we dare not face it.
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Syllables govern the world.
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A family is a tyranny ruled over by it's weakest member.
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Revelations: A curious record of the visions of a drug addict.
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A little learning is a dangerous thing, but we must take that risk because a little is as much as our biggest heads can hold.
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You see things; and you say 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?'
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Every baby has to discover more in the first years of its life than Roger Bacon ever discovered in his laboratory.
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The idea of personal salvation is intensely repugnant to me when it is not absurd. Imagine Roosevelt, the big brute, preserving his personality in a future state and swaggering about as a celestial Rough Rider!
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Make it compulsory for a doctor using a brass plate to have inscribed on it, in addition to the letters indicating his qualifications, the words 'Remember that I too am mortal'.
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I want to destroy ownership in order that possession and enjoyment may be raised to the highest point in every section of the community.
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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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No age or condition is without its heroes. The least incapable general in a nation is its Cæsar, the least imbecile statesman its Solon, the least confused thinker its Socrates, the least commonplace poet its Shakespeare.
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The poor silly-clever Irishman takes off his hat to God's Englishman.
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There is a disease to which plays as well as men become liable with advancing years. In men it is called doting, in plays dating.The more topical the play the more it dates.