"As long as you don't fly openly..." - Quote by George Bernard Shaw
As long as you don't fly openly in the face of society, society doesn't ask any inconvenient questions; and it makes precious short work of the cads who do. There are no secrets better kept than the secrets everybody guesses.
More by George Bernard Shaw
More on Society
“She began framing the words of her telegram into a senseless singsong; so that several park keepers looked at her with suspicion and were only brought to a favourable opinion of her sanity by noticing the pearl necklace which she wore.”
“The whole story of human history is: The blasphemy of today is the commonplace of tomorrow.”
“I think the growth industry of the future in this country and the world will soon be the continuing education of adults. ...I think the educated person of the future is somebody who realizes the need to continue to learn. That is the new definition and it is going to change the world we live in and work in.”
More on Conformity
“No shepherd and one herd! Everybody wants the same, everybody is the same: whoever feels different goes voluntarily into a madhouse.”
“Why should we leave it to Harper & Brothers and Redding & Co. to select our reading?”
“Nobody thanks a witty man for politeness when he puts himself on a par with a society in which it would not be polite to show one's wit.”