George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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In a battle all you need to make you fight is a little hot blood and the knowledge that it's more dangerous to lose than to win.
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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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We must always think about things, and we must think about things as they are, not as they are said to be.
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I object to publishers: the one service they have done me is to teach me to do without them. They combine commercial rascality with artistic touchiness and pettishness, without being either good business men or fine judges of literature.
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History, sir, will tell lies as usual.
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While browsing in a second-hand bookshop one day, George Bernard Shaw was amused to find a copy of one of his own works which he himself had inscribed for a friend: "To ----, with esteem, George Bernard Shaw." He immediately purchased the book and returned it to the friend with a second inscription: "With renewed esteem, George Bernard Shaw.
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It is not true that men can be divided into absolutely honest persons and absolutely dishonest ones. Our honesty varies with the strain put on it.
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I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a wasteful, disastrous subject; a wicked, cadging, lying, filthy, blasphemous and demoralizing subject.
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The Englishmen is at his best on the links and at his worst in the Cabinet.
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The chief objection to playing wind instruments is that it prolongs the life of the player.
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A veteran journalist has never had time to think twice before he writes.
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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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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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Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers.
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Freedom, my good girl, means being able to count on how other people will behave.
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A mind of the caliber of mine cannot derive its nutrient from cows.
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When a heretic wishes to avoid martyrdom he speaks of 'Orthodoxy, True and False' and demonstrates that the True is his heresy.
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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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You see, lots of the real people can't do it at all: they're such fools that they think style comes by nature to people in their position; and so they never learn. There's always something professional about doing a thing superlatively well.
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We mustn't be stiff and stand-off, you know. We must be thoroughly democratic, and patronize everybody without distinction of class.
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If we have come to think that the nursery and the kitchen are the natural sphere of a woman, we have done so exactly as English children come to think that a cage is the natural sphere of a parrot: because they have never seen one anywhere else.
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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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While we ourselves are the living graves of murdered animals, how can we expect any ideal living conditions on this earth?
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Gardening is the only unquestionably useful job.