The medical profession (is) a conspiracy to hide its own shortcomings. No doubt the same may be said of all professions. They… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
He said that private practice in medicine ought to be put down by law. When I asked him why, he said that… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
It is nearly 50 years since I was assured by a conclave of doctors that if I did not eat meat I… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A serious illness or a death advertises the doctor exactly as a hanging advertises the barrister who defended the person hanged. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Everything I eat has been proved by some doctor or other to be a deadly poison, and everything I don't eat has… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Make it compulsory for a doctor using a brass plate to have inscribed on it, in addition to the letters indicating his… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The test to which all methods of treatment are finally brought is whether they are lucrative to doctors or not. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Taking all the round of professions and occupations, you will find that every man is the worse for being poor; and the… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The medieval doctors of divinity who did not pretend to settle how many angels could dance on the point of a needle… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The doctor learns that if he gets ahead of the superstitions of his patients he is a ruined man; and the result… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Optimistic lies have such immense therapeutic value that a doctor who cannot tell them convincingly has mistaken his profession. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Nobody supposes that doctors are less virtuous than judges; but a judge whose salary and reputation depended on whether the verdict was… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
When men die of disease they are said to die from natural causes. When they recover (and mostly they do) the doctor… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A doctor's reputation is made by the number of eminent men who die under his care. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Let no one suppose that the words doctor and patient can disguise from the parties the fact that they are employer and… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Nothing is more dangerous than a poor doctor: not even a poor employer or a poor landlord. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
As well consult a butcher on the value of vegetarianism as a doctor on the worth of vaccination. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Discussing vaccination with a doctor is like discussing vegetarianism with a butcher. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Every doctor will allow a colleague to decimate a whole countryside sooner than violate the bond of professional etiquette by giving him… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
I love little children too but I don't cut off their heads and stick them in vases. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Blasphemy and sedition (meaning the truth about Church and State). — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
In the arts of life, man invents nothing; but in the arts of death he outdoes Nature herself, and produces by chemistry and machinery… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“My religious convictions and scientific views cannot at present be more specifically defined than as those of a believer in creative evolution. I desire… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
What a man believes may be ascertained, not from his creed, but from the assumptions on which he habitually acts. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
You are my inspiration and my folly. You are my light across the sea, my million nameless joys, and my day's wage. You are… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
Men have to do some awfully mean things to keep up their respectability. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The schoolmaster is the person who takes the children off the parents' hands for a consideration. That is to say, he establishes a child… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
As long as I have a want, I have a reason for living. Satisfaction is death. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The camera can represent flesh so superbly that, if I dared, I would never photograph a figure without asking that figure to take its… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
A man who is not a communist at the age of twenty is a fool. Any man who is still communist at the age… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
But to admire a strong person and to live under that strong person’s thumb are two different things. — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
