Bernard Quotes

If pity is akin to love, gratitude is akin to the other thing.

There is in man a specific lust for cruelty which infects even his passion of pity and makes it savage.

I occasionally swank a little because people like it; a modest man is such a nuisance.

When a prisoner sees the door of his dungeon open, he dashes for it without stopping to think where he shall get his dinner outside.

People always get tired of one another. I grow tired of myself whenever I am left alone for ten minutes, and I am certain that I am fonder of myself than anyone can be of another person.

He who bears the brand of Cain shall rule the earth.

This souls'prison we call England.

Nothing is more dreadful than a husband who keeps telling you everything he thinks, and always wants to know what you think.

I am very subtle; but Man is deeper in his thought than I am. The woman knows that there is no such thing as nothing: the man knows that there is no such day as tomorrow. I do well to worship them.

Don't ask me for promises until I know what I am promising.

The poor silly-clever Irishman takes off his hat to God's Englishman.

You can rave about Stravinsky without the slightest risk of being classified as a lunatic by the next generation .

It would positively be a relief to me to dig Shakespeare up and throw stones at him.

To attract joy and create more success, try doing less but doing it with more enthusiasm.

We need to value the importance of simplicity, focus and living according to our values.

To achieve great things requires that we become great people.

To be happy with human beings, we should not ask them for what they cannot give.

Be aware of anxiety. Next to sin, thee is nothing that so troubles the mind, stains the heart, distresses the soul, and confuses the judgment.

In fishing, golf and gardening, if you don't have a healthy tolerance for your own ineptitude, then it isn't for you.

There is no love sincerer than the love of food.

The reasonable man adapts himself to the world: the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

There are two tragedies in life. One is to lose your heart's desire. The other is to gain it.

In heaven an angel is no one in particular.

The man who writes about himself and his own time is the only man who writes about all people and all time.

Animals are my friends...and I don't eat my friends.

My way of joking is to tell the truth. It's the funniest joke in the world.

I’m an atheist and I thank God for it.

Pasteboard pies and paper flowers are being banished from the stage by the growth of that power of accurate observation which is commonly called cynicism by those who have not got it....

The man with toothache thinks everyone happy whose teeth are sound.The poverty stricken man makes the same mistake about the rich man.

In literature the ambition of the novice is to acquire the literary language the struggle of the adept is to get rid of it.

You have learnt something. That always feels at first as if you have lost something.

What we want to see is the child in pursuit of the knowledge not the knowledge in pursuit of the child.

Science never solves a problem without creating ten more

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.

There is always danger for those who are afraid.

Patriotism is, fundamentally, a conviction that a particular country is the best in the world because you were born in it....

It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man'sto keep unmarried as long as he can.

Those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.

Common sense is instinct. Enough of it is genius.

I want to be thoroughly used up when I die for the harder I work the more I live. I rejoice in life for its own sake.

[H]e is a barbarian, and thinks that the customs of his tribe and island are the laws of nature.

Hell is full of musical amateurs: music is the brandy of the damned. May not one lost soul be permitted to abstain?

Lack of money is the root of all evil.

Do not waste your time on Social Questions. What is the matter with the poor is Poverty what is the matter with the rich is Uselessness.

Some men see things as they are and ask why. Others dream things that never were and ask why not.

HIGGINS. Have you no morals, man?DOOLITTLE [unabashed] Cant afford them, Governor. Neither could you if you was as poor as me.

The problem with communication…is the illusion that is has been accomplished.

HIGGINS [aggrieved] Do you mean that my language is improper?MRS HIGGINS. No, dearest: it would be quite proper - say on a canal barge...

The liar's punishment is, not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else.

Confusing monogamy with morality has done more to destroy the conscience of the human race than any other error.