I.B. George Quotes
A man of great common sense and good taste - meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.
The mathematician is fascinated with the marvelous beauty of the forms he constructs, and in their beauty he finds everlasting truth.
Americans adore me and will go on adoring me until I say something nice about them.
Reasonable men adapt themselves to their environment; unreasonable men try to adapt their environment to themselves. Thus all progress is the result of the efforts of unreasonable men.
Most of my recent plays were written in the railway train between Hatfield and Kings Cross. I write anywhere, on the top of omnibuses or wherever I may be; it is all the same to me.
I sold flowers. I didn't sell myself. Now you've made a lady of me I'm not fit to sell anything else.
There may be some doubt as to who are the best people to have charge of children, but there can be no doubt that parents are the worst.
I hope you have lost your good looks, for while they last any fool can adore you, and the adoration of fools is bad for the soul.
No sooner had Jesus knocked over the dragon of superstition than Paul boldly set it on its legs again in the name of Jesus.
The goal of an artist is to create the definitive work that cannot be surpassed.
My mother married a very good man ... and she is not at all keen on my doing the same.
Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.
Be like the sun and meadow, which are not in the least concerned about the coming winter.
Suppose the world were only one of God's jokes, would you work any the less to make it a good joke instead of a bad one?
Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.
Murder and capital punishment are not opposites that cancel one another, but similars that breed their kind. It is the deed that teaches not the name we give it.
Those who minister to poverty and disease are accomplices in the two worst of all the crimes.
The notion that disarmament can put a stop to war is contradicted by the nearest dogfight.
Though justice be Thy plea, consider this: That in the course of justice none of us should see salvation. We do pray for mercy, And that same prayer doth teach us all to render The deeds of mercy.
To a mathematician the eleventh means only a single unit: to the bushman who cannot count further than his ten fingers it is an incalculable myriad.
To withhold deserved praise lest it should make its object conceited is as dishonest as to withhold payment of a just debt lest your creditor should spend the money badly.
Like all young men, you greatly exaggerate the difference between one young woman and another.
Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing.
That is the whole secret of successful fighting. Get your enemy at a disadvantage; and never, on any account, fight him on equal terms.
My opportunities were still there, nay, they multiplied tenfold; but the strength and youth to cope with them began to fail, and to need eking out with the shifty cunning of experience.
I must be the only person in the world who's looking forward to going into hospital. I can't wait to get it over and done with.
