George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used.
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Silence is the most perfect expression of scorn.
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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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It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.
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When a bishop at the first shot abandons the worship of Christ and rallies his flock round the altar of Mars, he may be acting patriotically... but that does not justify him in pretending...that Christ is, in effect, Mars.
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The trouble with her is that she lacks the power of conversation but not the power of speech.
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All sorts of bodily diseases are produced by half-used minds.
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The faults of the burglar are the qualities of the financier.
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The danger of crippling thought, the danger of obstructing the formation of the public mind by specially suppressing ... representations is far greater than any real danger that there is from such representations.
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While we have prisons it matters little which of us occupy the cells.
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I would exchange every painting of Christ for one snapshot.
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A man who has no office to go, to I don't care who he is, is a trial of which you can have no conception.
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Any sort of plain speaking is better than the nauseous sham good fellowship our democratic public men get up for shop use.
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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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All genuinely intellectual work is humorous.
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From a very early age, I've had to interrupt my education to go to school.
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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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If you cannot attain knowledge without torturing a dog, you must do without knowledge.
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Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord.
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I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul. No, give me a ruined complexion and a lost figure and sixteen chins on a farmyard of Crow's feet and an obvious wig. Then you shall see me coming out strong.
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I like to quote myself frequently and often, it makes me sound much more intelligent than I actually am.
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To make Democracy work, you need an aristocratic democracy. To make Aristocracy work, you need a democratic aristocracy.
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Changeable women are more endurable that monotonous ones; they are sometimes murdered but never deserted.
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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.