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My only policy is to profess evil and do good.

My only policy is to profess evil and do good.

George Bernard Shaw
Evil, Policy

Morality is not respectability.

George Bernard Shaw
Ethics, Morality, Morality And Ethics

I never expect a soldier to think.

George Bernard Shaw
Thinking, Soldier, Never Expect
'The Devil's Disciple' (1901) act 3

If the English can survive their food, they can survive anything.

George Bernard Shaw
Travel, Food, Cooking

The most sublime courage I have ever witnessed has been among that class too poor to know they possessed it, and too humble for the world to discover it.

George Bernard Shaw
Courage, Humble, Class

A conquered nation is like a man with cancer: he can think of nothing else.

George Bernard Shaw
Cancer, Men, Thinking
George Bernard Shaw (1994). “John Bull's Other Island”, p.41, Penguin UK

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.

George Bernard Shaw
Honesty, Men, Persons
George Bernard Shaw (1993). “The Complete Prefaces: 1914-1929”, Viking Adult

No severity of punishment deters when detection is uncertain, as it always must be.

George Bernard Shaw
Punishment, Uncertain, Detection

Paradoxes are the only truths.

George Bernard Shaw
Paradox
George Bernard Shaw (2004). “Misalliance”, p.36, 1st World Publishing

Only where there is pecuniary equality can the distinction of merit stand out.

George Bernard Shaw
Merit, Standing Out, Distinction

Hypocrisy ... is only bad when it is improperly used.

George Bernard Shaw
Hypocrisy, Used

Telling the truth is the funniest joke in the world.

George Bernard Shaw
Boxing, World, Telling The Truth

The world was to Shakespeare a great stage of fools on which he was utterly bewildered. His pregnant observations of life are not coordinated into any philosophy.

George Bernard Shaw
Philosophy, World, Fool

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.

George Bernard Shaw
Legs, May, Safe
From his Preface on Doctors published with The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)

Ye poor posterity, think not that ye are the first. Other fools before ye have seen the sun rise and set, and the moon change her shape and her hour. As they were so ye are; and yet not so great; for the pyramids my people built stand to this day; whilst the dustheaps on which ye slave, and which ye call empires, scatter in the wind even as ye pile your dead sons' bodies on them to make yet more dust.

George Bernard Shaw
Son, Moon, Thinking
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “George Bernard Shaw: The Collected Plays (Illustrated): 60 plays including Caesar and Cleopatra, Pygmalion, Saint Joan, The Apple Cart, Cymbeline, Androcles And The Lion, The Man Of Destiny, The Inca Of Perusalem and Macbeth Skit”, p.819, e-artnow

The hand of the painter is incurably mechanical: his technique is incurably artificial... The camera... is so utterly unmechanical.

George Bernard Shaw
Hands, Technique, Cameras

As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination.

George Bernard Shaw
Doctors, Vegetarianism, Vaccines

There are scores of thousands of human insects who are ready at a moment's notice to reveal the Will of God on every possible subject

George Bernard Shaw
Moments, Insects, Score
George Bernard Shaw (2015). “The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more”, p.2886, e-artnow

A man thinking or working is always alone, let him be where he will.

George Bernard Shaw
Lonely, Men, Thinking

What a heartbreaking job it is trying to combine authors for their own protection... the first lesson I learned was that when you take the field for the authors you will be safer without a breastplate than without a backplate.

George Bernard Shaw
Jobs, Trying, Heartbreaking

If only for a half hour a day, a child should do something serviceable to the community

George Bernard Shaw
Children, Community, Half

Medical science is as yet very imperfectly differentiated from common cure-mongering witchcraft

George Bernard Shaw
Medical Science, Common, Cures
From his Preface on Doctors published with The Doctor's Dilemma (1911)

I don't. I look my age; and I am my age. It is the other people who look older than they are. What can you expect from people who eat corpses and drink spirits?

George Bernard Shaw
People, Age, Looks

Never fret for an only son, the idea of failure will never occur to him.

George Bernard Shaw
Failure, Son, Ideas

Bible worship, though at its best it may achieve sublimity by keeping its head in the skies, may also make itself both ridiculousand dangerous by having its feet off the ground.

George Bernard Shaw
Bible, Sky, Feet

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