Bernard Quotes

The goal of scientific physicians in their own science ... is to reduce the indeterminate. Statistics therefore apply only to cases in which the cause of the facts observed is still indeterminate.

Now, a living organism is nothing but a wonderful machine endowed with the most marvellous properties and set going by means of the most complex and delicate mechanism.

Men are not governed by justice, but by law or persuasion. When they refuse to be governed by law or persuasion, they have to be governed by force or fraud, or both.

Poverty doesn't bring unhappiness; it brings degradation.

Don't waste time collecting other people's autographs; rather devote it to making your own autograph worth collecting.

Words are only postage stamps delivering the object for you to unwrap

Life is too short for men to take it seriously.

It's not that I'm so clever, it is that others are so stupid.

People exaggerate the value of things they haven't got everybody worships truth and unselfishness because they have no experience with them

Death is for many of us the gate of hell; but we are inside on the way out, not outside on the way in.

But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things.

It seems as though every time you learn something new you have to give up something.

A drama critic is a man who leaves no turn unstoned.

Seemingly unreasonable people attempt to adapt the world to themselves. Much progress, therefore, depends on such people.

Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.

Treat persons who profess to be able to cure disease as you treat fortune tellers.

I am enclosing two tickets to the first night of my new play; bring a friend... if you have one.

Love is a simple thing and a deep thing: it is an act of life and not an illusion. Art is an illusion.

Home is the girl's prison and the woman's workhouse.

God is on the side of the big battalions.

I can forgive Alfred Nobel for having invented dynamite, but only a fiend in human form could have invented the Nobel Prize.

Now of all the idealist abominations that make society pestiferous I doubt if there be any so mean as that of forcing self-sacrifice on a woman under the pretense that she likes it.

He who confuses political liberty with freedom and political equality with similarity has never thought for five minutes about either.

In order to fully realize how bad a popular play can be, it is necessary to see it twice.

I like a bit of mongrel myself, whether it's a man or a dog.

Time enough to think of the future when you haven't any future to think of.

The road to ignorance is paved with good editions. Only the illiterate can afford to buy good books now.

There are some experiences in life which should not be demanded twice from any man, and one of them is listening to the Brahms Requiem.

I was convinced that Ceylon is the cradle of the human race because everybody there looks an original. All other nations are obviously mass produced.

The degree of tolerance attainable at any moment depends on the strain under which society is maintaining its cohesion.

It's prudent to gain the whole world and lose your own soul. But don't forget that your soul sticks to you if you stick to it; but the world has a way of slipping through your fingers.

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

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

When your eyes are fixed in the stare of unconsciousness, and your throat coughs the last gasping breath - as one dragged in the dark to a great precipice - what assistance are a wife and child?

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.

No Englishman is ever fairly beaten

The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary. rather tiresomely addicted to dressing himself up as Handel or Beethoven and making a prolonged and intolerable noise.

Paradoxes are the only truths.

The plain working truth is that it is not only good for people to be shocked occasionally, but absolutely necessary to the progress of society that they should be shocked pretty often.

The cinema is going to form the mind of England. The national conscience, the national ideals and tests of conduct, will be those of the film.

You will think less of the art, when you know the artist

Your heart and your mouth wil be in two separate parts of your body if you again forget in whose presence you stand.

There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it.

Captain Shotover: How much does your soul eat? Ellie: Oh, a lot. It eats music and pictures and books and mountains and lakes and beautiful things to wear and nice people to be with.

The real Brahms is nothing more than a sentimental voluptuary

I don't want to talk grammar. I want to talk like a lady.

Being hurt by someone you truly care about leaves a hole in you heart that only love can fill.

If women were as fastidious as men, morally or physically, there would be an end of the race.

The open mind never acts: when we have done our utmost to arrive at a reasonable conclusion, we still must close our minds for the moment with a snap, and act dogmatically on our conclusions.

There are no perfectly honorable men; but every true man has one main point of honor and a few minor ones.