George Bernard Shaw Quotes
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To the person with a toothache, even if the world is tottering, there is nothing more important than a visit to a dentist.
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What is the use of writing plays, what is the use of writing anything, if there is not a will which finally moulds chaos itself into a race of gods.
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I do not want to make my stomach a graveyard of dead animals.
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Every man over forty is a scoundrel.Man
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There is only one religion, though there are a hundred versions of it.
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Liquor is the chloroform which enables the poor man to endure the painful operation of living.
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Self-sacrifice enables us to sacrifice other people without blushing.
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The epithet beautiful is used by surgeons to describe operations which their patients describe as ghastly, by physicists to describe methods of measurement which leave sentimentalists cold, by lawyers to describe cases which ruin all the parties to them, and by lovers to describe the objects of their infatuation, however unattractive they may appear to the unaffected spectators.
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It is the highest creatures who take the longest to mature, and are the most helpless during their immaturity.
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The sex relation is not a personal relation. It can be irresistibly desired and rapturously consummated between persons who could not endure one another for a day in any other relation.
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Composers are not human; They can live on diminished sevenths, and be contented with a pianoforte for a wife, and a string quartet for a family.
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I'm sick of all the reasonable people: they see all the reasons for doing nothing...
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Woman reduces us all to the common denominator.
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I was told that my diet was so poor that I could not repair the bones that were broken and operated on. So I have just had an Xradiograph taken; and lo! perfectly mended solid bone so beautifully white that I have left instructions that, if I die, a glove stretcher is to be made of me and sent to you as a souvenir...
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There is nothing that can be changed more completely than human nature when the job is taken in hand early enough.
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The more reasonable a student was in mathematics, the more unreasonable she was in the affairs of real life, concerning which fewtrustworthy postulates have yet been ascertained.
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It has taken me nearly twenty years of studied self-restraint, aided by the natural decay of my faculties, to make myself dull enough to be accepted as a serious person by the British public; and I am not sure that I am not still regarded as a suspicious character in some quarters.
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What is virtue but the Trade Unionism of the married?
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If I refuse to allow my leg to be amputated, its mortification and my death may prove that I was wrong; but if I let the leg go, nobody can ever prove that it would not have mortified had I been obstinate. Operation is therefore the safe side for the surgeon as well as the lucrative side.
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Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.
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Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends.
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Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich-something for nothing.
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I don't know if there are men on the moon, but if there are they must be using the earth as their lunatic asylum...
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Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the doctor is a specially dangerous man when poor.