Quotes from George Bernard Shaw
An asylum for the sane would be empty in America.
- George Bernard Shaw
Few of us have vitality enough to make any of our instincts imperious.
- George Bernard Shaw
Better never than late.
- George Bernard Shaw
I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog.
- George Bernard Shaw
The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result is that he instinctively takes care not to get ahead of them.
- George Bernard Shaw
There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.
- George Bernard Shaw
It's easier to replace a dead man than a good picture.
- George Bernard Shaw
The reasonable man will adjust to the demands of his environment. The unreasonable man expects his environment to adjust to his own needs. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.
- George Bernard Shaw
A man is like a phonograph with half-a-dozen records. You soon get tired of them all; and yet you have to sit at table whilst he reels them off to every new visitor.
- George Bernard Shaw
A man's behaviour may be quite harmless and even beneficial, when he ismorally behaving like a scoundrel. And he may do great harm when he is morally acting on the highest principles.
- George Bernard Shaw
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.
- George Bernard Shaw
It is in the hour of trial that a man finds his true profession.
- George Bernard Shaw