Decency is indecency's conspiracy of silence

Quote by George Bernard Shaw

Topics: Silence Quotes

Common people do not pray, my lord: they only beg

Common people do not pray, my lord: they only beg

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see...

Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see...

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without...

A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without...

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

I often quote myself. It adds spice to my conversation.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

It is most unwise for people in love to marry.

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only comfortable

An Englishman thinks he is moral when he is only comfortable

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to...

What Englishman will give his mind to politics as long as he can afford to...

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence...

A fool's brain digests philosophy into folly, science into superstition, and art into pedantry. Hence...

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and...

Perhaps the greatest social service that can be rendered by anybody to the country and...

Better never than late.

Better never than late.

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like...

I dread success. To have succeeded is to have finished one's business on earth, like...

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it

What the world calls originality is only an unaccustomed method of tickling it

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another...

Revolutions have never lightened the burden of tyranny: they have only shifted it to another...

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

There is no sincerer love than the love of food.

Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery, it's the sincerest form of learning.

Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery, it's the sincerest form of learning.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

The golden rule is that there are no golden rules.

A lifetime of happiness? No man could bear it: it would be hell on earth

A lifetime of happiness? No man could bear it: it would be hell on earth

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions...

What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions...

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves.

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very...

No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very...