George Bernard Shaw Quotes

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KNELLER:...take a sugar loaf and cut it slantwise, and you will get hyperbolas and parabolas, ellipses and ovals.

George Bernard Shaw
Every child has a right to its own bent.... It has a right to find its own way and go its own way, whether that way seems wise or foolish to others, exactly as an adult has. It has a right to privacy as to its own doings and its own affairs as much as if it were its own father.

George Bernard Shaw
KNELLER: Just what such blockheads would believe. The circle is a dead thing like a straight line: no living hand can draw it: you make it by twirling a pair of dividers.

George Bernard Shaw
I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everyone there looks an original.

George Bernard Shaw
Those who understand the steam engine and the electric telegraph spend their lives in trying to replace them with something better.

George Bernard Shaw
If the medical profession were to outdo the Anti-Vivisection Societies in a general professional protest against the practice and principles of the vivisectors, every doctor in the kingdom would gain substantially by the immense relief and reconciliation which would follow such a reassurance of the humanity of the doctor.

George Bernard Shaw
Well, upon my soul! You are not ashamed to stand there and confess yourself a disgusting drunkard.

George Bernard Shaw
All this struggling and striving to make the world better is a great mistake. Not that it's wrong to try to improve the world if you know how but simply because struggling and striving are the worst possible ways to go about doing anything!

George Bernard Shaw
As I write, there is a craze for what is called psychoanalysis, or the cure of diseases by explaining to the patient what is the matter with him: an excellent plan if you happen to know what is the matter with him, especially when the explanation is that there is nothing the matter with him.

George Bernard Shaw
Those whom we called brutes had their revenge when Darwin showed us that they were our cousins.

George Bernard Shaw