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Letter "G" » George Bernard Shaw Quotes
«Schools must not become the agencies through which propaganda advocated by any section of society is spread. The method of control always a crucial problem should be in harmony with the fundamental values and principles of the states and the entire e»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| About:
Schools
| Keywords:
advocated, agencies, fundamental principle, section
«Man can climb to the highest summits, but he cannot dwell there long»
«Nothing soothes me more after a long and maddening course of pianoforte recitals than to sit and have my teeth drilled»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
drilled, madden, maddening, pianoforte, recital, recitals, soothes
«Every unnatural activity of the brain is as mischievous as any unnatural activity of the body and that pressing people to learn things they do not want to know is as unwholesome and disastrous as feeding them on sawdust.»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
disastrous, feeding, mischievous, pressing, sawdust, unwholesome
«Government is not every body's job. It is a highly skilled vocation.»
«All professions are conspiracies against the laity»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
conspiracies, laity, professions
«The stock actor is a stage calamity»
«There are no secrets better kept than the secrets that everybody guesses»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
guesses, No Secrets, well-kept
«Of all the damnable waste of human life that ever was invented, clerking is the very worst»
Author: George Bernard Shaw
(Critic, Essayist, Playwright)
| Keywords:
clerking, damnable, the very worst
«The worst cliques are those which consist of one man»
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