"I have never thought much of the..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw
I have never thought much of the courage of a lion tamer. Inside the cage he is at least safe from other men. There is not much harm in a lion. He has no ideals, no religion, no politics, no chivalry, no gentility; in short, no reason for destroying anything that he does not want to eat
More by George Bernard Shaw
“Everybody who does not live in a prostitute's bed and on a diet of cocaine snow is called an ascetic nowadays.”
“The only way to avoid being miserable is not to have enough leisure to wonder whether you are happy or not.”
“I feel nothing but the accursed happiness I have dreaded all my life long: the happiness that comes as life goes, the happiness of yielding and dreaming instead of resisting and doing, the sweetness of the fruit that is going rotten.”
More on Courage
“The man that walks wit crowd, will get no farther than the crowd. The man that walks alone, will reach places unknown.”
“He is the truly courageous man who never desponds.”
“The Hobbits are just rustic English people, made small in size because it reflects the generally small reach of their imagination - not the small reach of their courage or latent power.”
More on Human Nature
“She was looking into my eyes with that way she had of looking that made you wonder whether she really saw out of her own eyes. They would look on and on after every one else's eyes in the world would have stopped looking. She looked as though there were nothing on earth she would not look at like that, and really she was afraid of so many things.”
“In reality, moral rules are directions for running the human machine. Every moral rule is there to prevent a breakdown, or a strain, or a friction, in the running of that machine. That is why these rules at first seem to be constantly interfering with our natural inclinations.”
“How few there are who have courage enough to own their faults, or resolution enough to mend them.”